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Originally posted by Penske_Account
Good. We should. Marriage should a private contractual right. The religious aspect should be wholly exclusive of that. If employers want to extend benefits to your private contract joint venture partner (aka [contractual] lover) then so be it, another private commercial arrangement.
State sanctioned marriage is an anachronism.
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Mercy. If you believe in marriage as a benefit to society, you should want the government to sanction it and reward it. There are few things, perhaps, you might want the government to weigh in on, but don't you want it to be the essential, fundamental things? Or the opposite?
BTW, there's an article at NR today outlining some common points that conservatives may have re marriage. In th econtext of finding common ground re gay marriage.
