I am against gay marriage. I am against straight marriage. I am against bi sexual marriage. Well, that’s not really true. I am against any Government recognition of marriage.
Marriage is supposed to be a commitment between two people. But why cant multiple people marry each other? Why can’t a man have five wives or a woman have 6 husbands? There are many theories why marriage started. But a lot of them are about making a keeping a family and not having children out of wedlock.
Now, with all that said, why does the Government have to recognize my marriage? Why is it that who I am married to has more rights to what happens to me then someone else by default? Marriage has almost become a joke, where almost 50 percent of marriages result in divorce. Why does the Government have to get involved? Why do they have to know who you are married? Marriage is supposed to be a commitment between two people. The law says a man and a woman in most states, but for the sake of my argument, it is an agreement between two consenting adults, who have decided to spend their lives together.
When it comes to marriage, the spouse almost always gets too much power of the other in certain circumstances. I mean this in a couple situations. The first is divorce. Why does someone have to sign a prenuptial agreement to have their previous monies and properties before they got married protected? I can see if it is proven that the spouse has helped directly make profits improve, or if there are monies, property, ect that they both acquired together.
Why is it if I get married and I own a house I paid before even meeting said spouse does that person have any right to them if we get divorced? Why is it if I bought stock 10 years ago and I have not touched since I bought it, does that person have the right to have half of it?
Like I said, I am not against marriage. I am against Government recognition of marriage. The Government should not have any say in who I sleep with or who I decide to spend the rest of my life with.
Now you might say;”What about what happens if you get hurt or you die”. To that I answer. Sort it out before a major event like that happens. Get a living well, set who is your legal power of attorney and your medical power of attorney. There is a difference between the two. Try to do what you can do to prepare for the worse to happen. Either to you, or your partner.
The government needs to get out of our lives and let us marry whoever we want. A man and woman, a woman and woman, a man and a man, family marrying family, it doesn’t matter. As long as all parties are consenting adults, then the Government need to shove off and get out of our business.
Now, I will say this about the “marriage equality” movement. How about like minded “straights” get together with their homosexual comrades and help get rid of Government recognition of marriage and everyone gets a “civil union”. If you want to be “married” that should be done in a private ceremony done by whatever religious organization you belong to and not have anything to do with civil unions.
I believe when it comes to civil unions, all it should be is that person A and person B, both of the age or above 18 on what ever given day are now legally “domestic partners” All legal stuff should be done after the union is completed. That includes both powers of attorney, living will, ect.
Civil unions is the legal side of it and marriage is the spiritual side of it. And the Government, other than knowing who my one or many partners are can get the hell out of it.
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