(March 19, 2012 at 8:37 am)Tiberius Wrote: Nobody should be forced to marry two people if it goes against their beliefs. Ultimately, this is why I am favour of government getting out of the marriage business. They have no right to tell any two consenting people that they cannot marry. Marriage is what you decide it is, not the commercial and statist thing it has become.
I agree completely. The government needs to remove itself from the marriage issue completely. Its funny that the right wingers in the US rail against government control over people's lives but then on this issue here they are trying pass nationwide bans and rewrite the constitution.
The real hidden agenda her is that conservatives will not stop until they have effectively written their moral beliefs into policy. They don't believe in populism and democracy they believe they have ultimate truth and their duty is to enact it via policy. That is essentially what is happening now with the contraception issue. The conservatives will not stop until they can categorically deny birth control coverage.
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"All thinking men are atheists." -Ernest Hemmingway
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." -Voltaire