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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: cosmicforce who wrote (112219)5/29/2009 5:41:07 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (2) of 541974
 
J's statement should read "Any adult can partner with any consenting adult"

And that is currently the case. Any adult can partner with any consenting adult (or at least almost any consenting adult, barring close family relationships, or perhaps some other concern). The law does nothing to prevent homosexual partnerships.

The question is should we provide benefits and special recognition to these partnerships or not, and if so what types of partnerships and relationships should we provide special recognition and benefits to and why. If it is just "anyone who loves someone else", well lots of people love other people, even other consenting adults, who they couldn't marry even if we allowed same sex marriage. And why limit to love (whether its love in general or romantic love in particular), or two groups of two people.

We have a certain historical and cultural tradition that marriage is one man with one woman. That could be changed, but if you change it why limit it to one man and one woman. I'm not saying that allowing gay marriage requires allowing polygamy, it doesn't. I'm saying that any setup is going to exclude certain possible relationships. Equal protection under the law doesn't require that all relationships be treated the same. Equal protection under the law is a very important principle, but its far too narrow to make such decisions for us. We have to rely on other legal and political principles, or just on what ideas gain popular support.
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