Massachusetts: Abolish ALL Marriage

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Sounds like a better solution to me. Seriously, this is what it says:

"The government has no business defining what is and is not a marriage. Marriage is a religious institution and the fact that any marriages have a legal standing is a violation of the separation of church and state. Instead of arguing about who can marry who, the legal status from all marriages, homosexual and heterosexual, should be removed and we should instead only recognize civil unions."

Correct.

Fund it!

>>1

WRONG. Marriage is not a religious institution. Has existed even without religion.

>>4
It would be sensible, seeing as there is a separation of church and state in the US, to have one kind of marriage that is accepted  in a legal, governmental way, and one in the religious way. Having the institution of marriage(civil unions) depend on the dogmas of religion, is obviously wrong in a state where the two (religion and state) are separated.

unions between two people have almost always existed though, that's right.

Why does marriage matter? Humans fuck outside marriage anyway, and everyone thinks that's fine.

>>6
More like legal benefits and equality thereby. Not so much anything to do with sex.

>>7

Who is "equal" to whom? Why should fuckers, aka "spouses", get benefits from the state?

marriage is a way or legally binding your possessions the property of your spouse as well as your's

Gay guy A:  I love you!
Gay guy B:  I love you too!
Gay guy A:  Let's validate this with a binding legal contract, the purest for of love!

Government:  No.

Gay guys:  bawwwww.  But we need an outside authority to legally bind us to prove our love for one another!!!!11


Fags are stupid.

>>10
You've got it wrong. I'm sure people don't get married to "prove their love." It is for various legal benefits.

>>1
I've been advocating exactly this for about 8 years, since I first learned of legal conveniences of civil or common law marriages.  Separation of church and state appeals to me, so this just makes too much sense.

The state is quite possibly full of enough unwashed raving paranoid-schizophrenic libertarians and hempweaving lesbian liberal arts majors to pull this off.


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>>12
Good luck convincing those religious freaks.

>>13
Which ones?  The Universalist Unitarians (homosexuals and hippies), the Rev. Mooninites (azns)?  Orgs like the Catholic Church are hurting in political throw these days thanks to rampant little-boy-buttsecks, general yuppification (believe it or not, well educated ppl tend not to engage religious zealotry), and illegal immigrants.  Srsly, I'd wager >50% of the devout hardcore conservative fundy Catholics & Born-Agains in MA are illegals (Brazilians, Puerto Ricans, etc) and can't/don't/won't vote anyway. 
Also, all the Morans (er Mormons) live in gentrified areas like Arlington and Cambridge where they are significantly outnumbered (and thus annihilated) by radically liberal busybody pensioners and pot smoking University students.

It scares me to think that something like OPs link may have half a chance in the northeast or northwest States; and will eventually lead to Civil War rev2: Jesusland vs The United States of Canada.

>>11
You can get those legal benefits without getting married.

>>1
Duuur could someone explain to me why this is a better idea than just letting gay people marry?

They get married here no problem (canada)... I just don't know who marries them, I'm not big on churches, EH.

>>10

I think the point is that Government should have no say in who couples with whom for whatever period time, be they homosexual, heterosexual or whatever.

KILL THE FAGGOTS

Abolish marriage. If we give benefits to any two people, then why not three or four people? Get rid of the idea of state benefits through marriage, and then let the fags do whatever the hell they want.

Why abolish marriage?  The heterosexuals are busily destroying the institution of marriage in the first place with a huge (and rising) divorce rate and "starter marriages".  Thanks to the hets, marriage is now just a commodity, like blowjobs are.

>>20
To make it all fair for fags. Let's all play nice and be fair.

>>20
You're not a heterosexual.