“Now even a bunch of conservatives on FR think it would be the most reasonable thing to do.”
Enlightened people know that state-sponsored marriage came from a time when women were second-class citizens. It was a means of passing on property legally, and ensuring paternity. We no longer need government to do either, and women are perfectly capable of entering into their own freely contracted relationships.
There is plenty of literature, more than 20 years old, from writers conservatives generally approve that repeat this point.
“Enlightened people know that state-sponsored marriage came from a time when women were second-class citizens”
my dear FReeper, marriage is the only special legal protection a woman or a child HAS.
Legitimate marriage protects women and children.
Shacking up, promiscuous sex, various children by various anonymous dads, and fluid household and protection and providence arrangements destroy us.
We no longer need to pass property on legally, or determine paternity???