Gay Marriage views at Apolyton

[yavoon]

Originally posted by Big Crunch
All legal rights and benefits associated with marriage should be electable to whomever you choose. In a legal sense isn't marriage just a contract between two consenting participants?

As far as ceremonies and weddings if you want a public display of commitment then by all means do it, and do it as many times and with as many people as you want.

why just 2? I hardly think the number 2 is less arbitrary than "man and women"

[Q Classic]

andorians require groups of 4 to marry and mate.

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by yavoon


why just 2? I hardly think the number 2 is less arbitrary than "man and women"

I never said just two. Reread my post.

There are of course tax and other legal complications with extending rights and benefits currently associated with marriage to more than one other person.

For example, here in the UK, if you could marry as many people as you liked you could conceivably negate, in its entirety, inheritance tax.

[chequita guevara]

I'm with Imran.

[Thorn]

If Marriage is a union between 1 man and 1 woman, then why can people remarry? Isn't that some sort of Heavenly Polygmy when the last person finally dies?

[chequita guevara]

No. When you get to heaven you're all married to god. So saith Rabbi Jeshua.

[yavoon]

Originally posted by Big Crunch


I never said just two. Reread my post.

There are of course tax and other legal complications with extending rights and benefits currently associated with marriage to more than one other person.

For example, here in the UK, if you could marry as many people as you liked you could conceivably negate, in its entirety, inheritance tax.

lotsa ppl sue over "why other ppl marry." especially when they get divorced. thats just one more thing to sue over.

[Drogue]

"Elsewhere: Homosexual Civil Unions Only"
Marriage is a religious ceremony, IMHO. Civil Unions should be a non-religious alternative, with rights from the state. No-one should be able to deny the rights of two people to be recognised as a couple, however no-one should be able to force a religion to accept something it sees as an abomination.

[Whoha]

the government should be fully removed from all aspects of marriage.

[Ramo]

Gay polygamy.

[Neutrino]

I voted #4: Full homosexual rights + polygamy.

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by yavoon


lotsa ppl sue over "why other ppl marry." especially when they get divorced. thats just one more thing to sue over.

Let me put it another way, if you don't limit the number of people you can marry you essentially reduce the value of the institution from a legal sense. I would suggest therefore that you remove the legal institution and replace it with electable rights, which you can elect to anyone you choose whether you are romantically, physically or otherwise involved with them or not. Where rights are not exclusive there would be no limit on how many people you choose to give them to.

[chequita guevara]

Should gay people be allowed to get divorced?

[pchang]

What I really want is for marriage to be a religious thing and completely removed from the political arena. I want marriage laws to be rewritten in a gender neutral civil union type of way. That way, religions can say to gays "no, you cannot be married within our church", but gays would still get the same legal rights and benefits that married people get today (tax, insurance, decision making, survivor stuff, etc.).

[Capt Dizle]

Bananas have rights too!