Baldwin: contradiction of prohibiting same-sex marriage

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alec-baldwin/why-childless-straight-co_b_208457.html

"One perspective, however, keeps coming back at me. Fundamentalists believe that marriage is between a man and a woman and for the purpose of creating a family. A gay couple is incapable of having their own children, they assert, so they do not qualify to be married. But what of heterosexual couples who marry with no intention of having children. Beyond any issues of infertility or illness, there are men and women who are married in the eyes of the state, enjoying all of the legal benefits, who have no intention of having children. They seek only companionship and all of the entitlements that come with marriage. Sex, joy, partnership, caring. All of that is theirs, even though they will never bear children and willfully so. If the state says they are free to do that, why aren't gay couples, as well. "

Wonderful argument, IMHO
 
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alec-baldwin/why-childless-straight-co_b_208457.html

...A gay couple is incapable of having their own children, they assert, so they do not qualify to be married....

"They" should meet my two wonderful daughters! :rolleyes:
 
As a happily childfree person in an opposite sex rel.

Well, you see there' s something wrong with those people in the eyes of a lot of whacked out lunatics who think that you simply can't get through life not breeding, you have to be selfish or evil, or tragic.

It doesn't even occur to them that those might be more than like, six people, worldwide who don't want as many babies as they can crank.

The purpose of marriage not 100 years ago was so that you could move your social standing around or hook up with the right family or get that daughter of yours taken off your hands so someone else could feed her. The "purpose of marriage" is totally mutable and fairly meaningless from a legal standpoint that doesn't talk about your stuff and what you want done with it.
 
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