NortheastCynic
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Because a document that includes all of the benefits and logistics of a marriage document is a marriage document. The same reason why all death certificates are called 'death certificates'.a777pilot said:I agree. So why the big push to call it what it is not....a marriage. Draw up a legal document and have it enforced by the courts. But marriage it is not.
Contracts need not be 'vital' to society for two individuals to enter into them. A contract is only illegitimate if one or more parties are coerced into signing it and/or the contract states an agreement to do something illegal (killing someone, for example). If two individuals voluntarily and mutually agree to enter into a contract that fits that bill, it's being 'vital' or not to society is irrelevant. I can draw up a binding contract promising my roommates that I will shower only between the hours of 7:00 and 9:00 AM. Vital to society? Hell no. A legitimate contract, surely.Jerry said:Yeah well from a "legal" standpoint marriage is necessary for the survival of Men. Gay relationships...not that vital....unless they're raising children, but then it's about family, as I said.
There is not one legitimate reason for preventing two individuals from entering into a voluntary and peaceful contract.
Of course there is. I'll reiterate: Gays, like everyone else should have the basic right (and do in all other facets of life) to enter into voluntary, peaceful contracts.Jerry said:So far, gay relationships don't seem to be about raising children, so since the government's only interest in the legal institution of marriage is not apparently present in gay relationships, there's no reason to legalize gay marriage.
-NC
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