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Originally Posted by merrylander
Is it not amusing that the man/woman marriage bunch also has a 50% divorce rate.  |
Exactly why it seem ridiculous for government to me to be expanding the concept rather than abolishing it. Marriage should exist only as a religious sacrament, while a couples interaction with the state for tax, ownership, pension, etc purposes should be defined under some sort of 'civil union' construct which doesn't care about the gender of it's participants.
I know you have lived in Canada. The system up there is much closer to what I'm talking about. They legalized nationwide same-sex marriage in 2005 to comparatively little fanfare and most provinces had recognized common-law cohabitations and same-sex civil unions to have basically the same rights as marriages for some time before that anyway.