RE: Freedom from religion
November 22, 2017 at 9:31 am
(This post was last modified: November 22, 2017 at 9:37 am by brewer.)
(November 21, 2017 at 11:52 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:(November 21, 2017 at 11:46 pm)Khemikal Wrote: No, it doesn't. You think a ghost blesses one kind of marriage but not another. That's not objective or essential. You're angling for a justification for your predisposition to inequality. Good luck.
I am making no references to religion, only civil law. What, according to you, makes a marriage distinct from other social institutions? What defining feature makes a marriage a marriage and not some other type of relationship? Stop with the distractions and blather.
Laws were enacted on behalf of/because of marriages to create a universal and easy social contract to protect one or both parties. There is nothing special about marriage contracts that individual contracts could not achieve. It's religions influence that has fucked things up by defining who can or can't qualify for the contract.
(November 22, 2017 at 12:04 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote: I think the answer Neo is looking for is the potential to have children.
Then functionally sterile people don't need a marriage contract? It is applicable to more that just procreation.
I don't have an anger problem, I have an idiot problem.
