SmokeAndMirrors
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Yes, angry over the defeat in the supreme court, some republican politicians have gone into crazy mode.
Representative Steve King says:
"So I'm calling upon the states, just abolish civil marriage, let's go back to holy matrimony the way it began, do that alone,". "In the next few days I'll be introducing legislation to do just that."
So what do we think? In a nation that is getting less religious, he wants to abolish the right of people to have a civil marriage purely because he wants to stop gays from marrying.
Here are a few problems with what he proposes (IMHO)
1. how is this going to play with the supreme court by discriminating against non-religious people who would be unable to marry anymore due to this fool's possible proposal
2. and this is a biggie some priests do marry gays and lesbians in a holy matrimony!!!!!!!!!!. So his big plan to make gay marriage impossible is in fact achieving nothing. He is just making a total ass of himself.
3. the republican party does at some time want another president from their party in the white house because attitudes like this will not go down well with the voters (who are largely in favor of gay marriage).
Steve King also said: "It's not the will of the people to have same sex marriage, now there's no point in having civil marriage in this country whatsoever,".
He does have internet right? He does know that the opinion polls show that a big majority of Americans support gay marriage? Or is he just totally out of touch with reality?
But here is the question, do you agree with republican Steve King, civil marriage has to be abolished in the US in favor of holy matrimony only?
I do mostly agree with him, but not because of his homophobic nonsense. I have been involved with helping the cause of SSM. But only because it's the only way, in our current system, for same-sex couples to access all of their family and financial rights.
It should never have been this way in the first place. Marriage was a purely social institution in America initially. And why did it change?
So the government could ban interracial marriage, and cut off access to familial rights for these couples. That's why.
Government marriage has been an institution of bigotry since its inception. It was created for the sole purpose of crippling families that the government and society disagreed with. It should be abolished, and legal agreements that strengthen families completely separated from marital status (which is a purely self-assigned social designation, not any more dependent upon religion than it is upon government -- and that is where I disagree with him).
People should have absolutely free access to assign their familial and financial rights to whomever they please -- even non-romantic partners, or different rights to different partners. It is THEIR family, and neither the government nor popular opinion have any business assigning themselves the role of judge and jury of whether other people's families are allowed to exist.
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