Posted on 12/10/2014 4:09:51 PM PST by bubbacluck
Article 16.
(1) Men and women of full age, without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion, have the right to marry and to found a family. They are entitled to equal rights as to marriage, during marriage and at its dissolution. (2) Marriage shall be entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses. (3) The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.
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Is just our country out of whack with the rest of the world regarding this?
“Men” and “women”.
No particular counts or combinations are constrained.
So that’s the loophole. Technically, it could be anything.
So long as they are “adults” sure, anything.
I think we could form a really big FReeper Family by all simultaneously marrying each other. That would be legal, according to their definition.
Not only that but shouldn’t 57 certain countries be in constant violation of this......
What I noticed about the wording in the charter is that it is, at least to me, utopia driven. It seems to assume that mankind is basically good. Those 57 countries do not align with a whole bunch of the charter.
Get this bunch of commie loons out of my country! Now!
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