From: "Alberto Monteiro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Bryon Daly wrote: > > > >I think the *real* problem is that the gay marriage opponents have the > >dreaded "slippery slope" fear that if gay marriage is legiimized, then next > >will come other gay civil rights, etc., and soon they won't be able to > >discriminate against gays at all! The horror! (and yes, that's sarcasm, if > >anyone missed it). > > > I think anti-gay-marriage people fear - correctly - that if gay marriages > are allowed, then the next step will be the legalization of polygamies or > even other weird combinations. > > I would say: go for broke. There should be something like a civil union, > made of 2 or more people, with fixed rules for forming [adding a new > member] and dissolving [removing a member or splitting in half], with > no mention to sexual intercourses. A marriage is just a special form > of it. > > I know a pair of sisters that live together like a marriage [except > sex, of course]. They have *no* legal protection for simple things, > like extending insurance to the other. Why they can't be "married"? > > Alberto Monteiro > For equity then, take the word "marriage" out of the government completely. Let all civil unions, including what is now called marriage, be simply called "civil unions" by the state. JPs will no longer perform marriage cerimonies, instead they will officiate in civil unions. Leave the term Marriage for religious organizations that perform them and let them define what is and is not a marriage in that faith. It's the only way to be fair to all. Michael Harney [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much... the wheel, New York, wars, and so on, whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely the dolphins believed themselves to be more intelligent than man for precisely the same reasons." - Douglas Adams _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
