[Grunthor]

I've never posted an article before, I hope I did it correctly.

[x_plus_one]

Sounds like Denmark.

[Welcome2thejungle]

Perhaps we should all live in hippy communes, gather around the campfire and sing kumbaya and hymms of praises to the Dear Leader like they already do in public school.

[Upstate NY Guy]

You did fine. Fun, huh?

[FES0844]

The divorce lawyers will never approve.

[stumptalker]

The government should have never been in the marriage business in the first place. Since marriage includes a legal
merger of two people, just have the government grant them a business partnership for the purposes of property ownership and our beloved taxes. Let the churches do the marriage ceremonies. This would truly separate church and state as it was intended.

[Upstate NY Guy]

First the libs say anybody should be allowed to marry anybody. Now they are starting up with nobody should be allowed to marry anyone. Confusing.

[BuffaloJack]

This fool sounds like he’s be on his way to good cade of super aids.
Marriage is a right of man/woman couples and it should stay that way. Any deviation from this leads to the welfare plantation.

[B Knotts]

What a kook. He wants the government invoved in everything else!

[TheThirdRuffian]

Marriage is between two people and God, and any children from the union.

I understand the desire for some structure (and hence government involvement), but as the “gay marriage” nonsense shows us -— ANY government involvement is a bad idea.

Make it a private issue.

[GOPJ]

For your first - this is great.

If liberals can't shove gay marriage on us - they'll destroy what we have? Pigs. Liberals are such envious pigs.

[saint]

It's an idea that has been simmering below the radar for a while and is starting to gain a little traction. We'll have to wait and see if it comes to a boil or fizzles out.

Tough call, between the idea that government should stay out of personal business and the idea that our society benefits from the traditional marriage. Both good ideas, but traditional marriage is on the skids as far as the way government handles it.

If anything, it should be up to the states, not the feds.

[I am Richard Brandon]

"Sunstein urges: Abolish marriage"

Great - now I can marry my dog! But sadly, it will never happen because the 'gubmint' will not give up the revenues that the gubmint license brings in.

[kukaniloko]

You shouldn’t need a government license to get married. The government should butt out.

[MaxMax]

If the Government abolishes the sanctioning of marriage who will play
the role of husband and father to all those ACORN members?

[Girlene]

The U.S. government should abolish its sanctioning of marriage, but, .......... his approach would ensure that "the only legal status states would confer on couples would be a civil union, which would be a domestic partnership agreement between any two people."

And there you have it - "legal status" for civil unions between anyone.

The article goes on to explain his views on organ removal without a deceased person's consent and taxpayer funded abortions for rape and incest pregnancies. His book, "Nudge: Improving decisions about health, wealth and happiness." is an "interesting" insight into how the government can manipulate society by limiting, narrowing, or funneling choices given to society.

[geologist]

Their desire to destroy, abolish, remove even the idea of marriage and anything else that is of God; leading to a the basics of a healthy, stable life, and our happiness. Creating the foundation of raising healthy (in mind and body) with the children having known love and how to love others.

“We are in the world ... not of the world. IE.

John 17:14-21 (New King James Version)
“14 I have given them Your word; and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.

15 I do not pray that You should take them out of the world, but that You should keep them from the evil one.
16 They are not of the world, just as I am not
18 As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world.
19 And for their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they also may be sanctified by the truth.

Jesus Prays for All Believers

20 “I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will[a] believe in Me through their word; 21 that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me.”

[EggsAckley]

“the state owns the rights to body parts of people who are dead or in certain hopeless conditions, and it can remove their organs without asking anyone’s permission.”

Well, that does it for ME. I hereby plan on drinking, smoking, taking every health risk I can enjoy.......when they finally get to me, MY organs won’t be worth their trouble.

Heh.

[timm22]

This seems like such a non-issue to me, but maybe I don't understand all of the legal aspects of marriage.

As I understand things, any two people can effectively bind themselves in a marriage-like relationship through the use of contracts and other legal instruments. And people who are married are only getting certain default rights and obligations from the marriage. A married couple can come up with any number of alternative arrangements to govern how property should be shared, how custody of children should be decided, the penalties to be incurred in case of infidelity, etc. by waiving or modifying the default rights and obligations they take on when getting married.

So really, whether the state does or does not recognize something called "marriage" won't prevent two people from joining together and making binding arrangements for how to split up if things don't work out. The debate is really about whether the government will apply a special term to describe certain of those relationships. I guess there is some importance to that question, but not really enough to get all hot and bothered if your particular relationship doesn't get that label.

[narses]

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Obama Says A Baby Is A Punishment

Obama: “If they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.”

[Cicero]

Did he clear this with the divorce lawyers and the divorce courts? The Dems would lose a lot of donations if this went through.