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05/17/2004 Archived Entry: "This Whole Gay Marriage Thing"

Several people, including myself, have this idea that the legal system should allow civil unions between gays and straights, while marriages would be strictly a spiritual matter that churches can worry over.



This has a certain charm to the mathematical part of my brain. It seem orderly, logical, and keeps a seperation of church and state. Someone put it very clearly to me. "The civil unions would be purely a contract" he explained. It makes sense. There would be none of this old-fashioned "marriage is for creating stable enviroments for



Sadly, I fear such logical thinking may not manage to work with such an irrational tradition.



Should a father be able to have a civil union with his adult son? Why not? It's just a legal contract. If that seems too extreme, how about spinster twins getting married? I have some in-laws who are really like elderly married sisters.



Could anyone be civil-unioned to anyone else. I'm married, but could I be in a civil union with someone who is not my husband? I guess so.



I'm starting to think that having this civil union system might add more complications.



Straightforward gay marriage is starting to feel right to more and more people. Maybe that is all the justification that gay marriage needs. Maybe that is all the justification marriage needs -- it just feels right. Someday it may not, but that is for another generation to worry over.

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