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Article #268Re: Stop the anti-marriage bill!!
From: Bob Cormack
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 00:00
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 00:00
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The only logical reason that marriage is not just another contract -- i.e., the only reason that the government has for making any special rules for the marriage contract (tax advantages, etc.) -- is that marriage results in children; and the government (all of us, that is) have a strong interest in seeing that children are protected and nourished and brought to adulthood in a way that makes them responsible citizens. This reason does not exist for same-sex marriage contracts, so why not just let them be governed by the existing contract laws? It would make more sense to modify the law to extend benefits for those couples (same sex or otherwise) who are really raising children than to extend the marriage laws to a degree not justified by any societal interest. Bob Cormack
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f49ec,2d20e91bc2c6f61e X-Google-Attributes: gidf49ec,public X-Google-Thread: 12ce57,2d20e91bc2c6f61e X-Google-Attributes: gid12ce57,public X-Google-Thread: 1073ca,2d20e91bc2c6f61e X-Google-Attributes: gid1073ca,public X-Google-Thread: 16e05b,2d20e91bc2c6f61e X-Google-Attributes: gid16e05b,public X-Google-Thread: 1026d8,2d20e91bc2c6f61e X-Google-Attributes: gid1026d8,public From: bob@compopt.com (Bob Cormack) Subject: Re: Stop the anti-marriage bill!! Date: 1996/03/13 Message-ID: <4i5aug$c0b@boulder.earthnet.net> X-Deja-AN: 142363363 references: <Pine.SOL.3.91.960306232255.4075B-100000@spot.Colorado.EDU> <4i1pgq$2b1@natasha.rmii.com> organization: Computational Optics newsgroups: cu.motss,cu.diversity,co.politics,boulder.general,co.general