Index of SPPS Budget Discussion http://www.e-democracy.org/stpaul/spps-posts.html _________________________________________ In a message dated 3/23/2004 2:05:02 AM Eastern Standard Time, BARONWULFGAR writes:
> As a rule, I honestly think we need to get the government out of our bedrooms. > However, I would like to have some answers before I sign off on some broad > resolution to change the existing marriage laws. Here lies the problem in the debate on Gay Marriage, when people think of marriage they think of sex. The government's relationship with marriage has nothing to do with sex. It creates a legal partnership that exists in all transactions between the parties. That is the essence of the legal governmental contract of marriage a legal partnership of TWO people. It means that the two people share property and positions by a legal assumption. So, a married person buys a house, both persons in the marriage own the house even if the second one had no idea that the first one went out and bought it. It is a contractual relationship that is assumed in all transactions by either party. All gay couples are asking for is the same contractual relationships that hetro couples are able to enjoy given to them by the state. It does not have one thing to do about what anyone can or can't do in bed. So, get your minds out of the gutter, quit thinking about the dirty dead, and think about the legal partnership that is created by that piece of paper. If you focus only on that instead of who does what to whom in the bedroom, the issue becomes very tame. And, at that point I would guess most people would have little or no problem with two people creating a private partnership on all legal transactions, which is what a legal marriage is. J.M.O.N.T.O.A.O.M.E.P.P.O.F Chuck Repke _____________________________________________ SPPS Budget Reduction Forum - Feb. 23-27 Co-Sponsored By NEAT: http://www.stpaulneat.org/ _____________________________________________ NEW ADDRESS FOR LIST: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe, modify subscription, or get your password - visit: http://www.mnforum.org/mailman/listinfo/stpaul Archive Address: http://www.mnforum.org/mailman/private/stpaul/
