Let’s get a few things clear.
Marriage is not a right. It is not a license to have sex, nor is it means to receive benefits or social recognition.
Marriage shapes the rights and obligations of bearing children. It is an institution that provides a legal, moral and biological structure to benefit offspring. Children have the right to be cared for by the two people who brought him or her into the world, whether the birth was unexpected or planned.
States recognize a child’s birthright by forming divorce and child support laws around the rights of a child and not the rights of adults. And it is in the state’s interest to protect the birthright of children.
It is this, and this reason alone why marriage should be defined as a union between a man and a woman.
So what is a state to do when it comes to recognize the right of consenting adults to unify with whomever they prefer?
It’s time to get states out of the marriage business. Most states already allow protection for people in civil unions and grant adoption rights to same sex couples. Laws affecting taxes, banking and health care and similar situations have already been modified to recognize civil unions.
What’s needed is a set of laws that uniformly uphold the birthrights of children to their parents and give civil unions all the legally binding protections needed for two adults to remain committed to each other.
However, it’s also time to recognize marriage for what it really is, a religious sacrament bestowed by churches, and is thus subject to the separation of church and state clause of the US constitution.
Give the sacred ritual of marriage back to the church. And give the contract of civil unions back to the state.
One of the most cogent expositions of the contemporary “Marriage” issue that I’ve read.
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