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To: kidd
The drawback, however, is huge. Removing any state recognition of marriage would certainly further destroy the family unit and I’m not sure if this is tolerable, even for the short run.

I'm not sure it's tolerable, either. I'm still thinking about it all. But I've been thinking for a while that the government's intrusion into the family is already so pervasive that there's really not much left to protect.

The law's legitimacy to deal with family matters depends primarily on protecting the property rights of the spouses, protecting the rights of the parents to raise their children, and protecting the rights of the children to be free from abuse and to be raised by their loving natural parents.

All of these purposes have been so thoroughly corrupted by our failed family legislation that I'm wondering if it's not time to start over.

43 posted on 03/24/2009 1:13:16 PM PDT by StonyMan451
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To: AbeLincoln

How is government going to be less intrusive by saying that the people have no right to representation on the issue of marriage?

Do you think that all of sudden lawsuits are going to stop against anyone who doesn’t agree with the open expression of homosexuality in society?

Do you think that government run schools will stop being a target for homosexual activism? Do you think that Hollyweird and the media will just stop promoting it as well?

Either ‘We the People’ have a right to define marriage for society as being only between one man and one woman or else we don’t and the leftwing will define it through the Courts by continually suing anyone who disagrees. This is a battle that we either win or lose. There is no compromise.


44 posted on 03/24/2009 1:44:18 PM PDT by TheBigIf
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