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Marc2b -> RE: Federal appeals court rules Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional (6/1/2012 7:39:34 AM)
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Are you so fucking stupid that you don't realize that Sharia Law would eliminate Gay marriage?
I, for one, would welcome Sharia law in the United States. I'm sick and tired of these uppity women speaking out of turn, walking around without escorts, blatantly showing their faces and thus inciting unnatural lusts in men...
Okay folks, seriously now. I believe that we need a constitutional amendment to settle this marriage nonsense once and for all (although I am dubious it would ever happen). This amendment would:
Define a marriage as a civil union between two or more (I see no reason to leave the polys out) consenting adults that creates a familial relationship that did not exist before. You have such a relationship with parents, siblings cousins, etc, by virtue of birth. Marriage, in essence, would be making someone who is not a relative into one.
Recognize, from a strictly legal point of view, that marriage is also a civil contract allowing joint filing of tax returns, etc.
Mandate that civil employees (judges, the town clerk, whatever) who perform marriages do so without regard to any personal religious objections they may have. You are an agent of the government and the government has no business engaging in unwarranted discrimination against its citizens. If you can't uphold the duties of your office then you shouldn't have it.
Continue to allow religious ministers to perform marriages for their followers and mandate that they cannot be compelled to perform a marriage that violates their conscious... thus protecting Freedom of Religion. In such instances they would be temporarily acting as a government agent but would not be considered as such full time and so would not be bound to the non-discrimination clause.
Allow partners in a marriage to a no fault divorce and receive an equal portion of the marriage assets (I can hear the divorce lawyers howling already) Perhaps to prevent people from being scammed there would have to be a waiting period (say, seven years) before the "no fault" kicked in. Divorce would still be allowed right away in cases with cause (eg domestic violence).
Yeah, I'm still tumbling these ideas around and can see that some tweaking would be needed but the bottom line is: We need to clearly define what a marriage is, how it begins and how it ends.
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