Posted by
Michael on Friday, May 16, 2008 1:48:04 PM
I
have a very unorthodox opinion on gay marriage that is a bit outside of
both realms of debate. In other words, I don't fall in with the
Christian fundamentalists in opposition or the gay rights groups in
favor. In honor of
the recent California court decision on gay marriage, I have decided to finally put this opinion into words.
Gay
people deserve all the rights of straight people, and I think they
would more easily be able to gain those rights if their fighting for
them didn't appear to be threatening to the values of religious
institutions. The way to solve this would be to completely get
government out of the marriage business and reduce its involvement to
something similiar to an driver's license, permitting a "license of
union" or something similiar to two individuals that decide to live in
a personal union.
This would make government involvement
minimal, and reduce it to allowing couples to average their incomes and
whatnot. How the couple chooses to define their union could be left to
their church, synagogue, mosque, temple, family, friends or themselves.
By going in either the evangelical or gay marriage direction at this
point government is endorsing ideology, and in my honest opinion
government should be as unideological as possible if it is to keep from
infringing on its citizens' lives.