On 12 Nov 2008, at 06:35, Roger Howard wrote:
> The problem is, I think, that if people want to
> call that marriage, well I'm sure they will, and that's where I'm
> afraid the issue will breakdown - if it looks like marriage, smells
> like marriage, people will use the language of marriage, and then
> we're back to our current predicament. I fear it's just playing the
> same word games that we're playing now.
You are absolutely correct. The Commonwealth of Virginia went so far
as to not only legislate that marriage is only between a man and a
woman but to also rewrite laws regarding the area of contract law to
prevent same sex couples from creating contracts with one another
that would grant them the equivalent legal protections which are
automatically granted by the civil marriage license.
Dave
--
"It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen from
falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the
Government from falling into error"
-- Robert H. Jackson (1892-1954), U.S. Judge
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