In New York, the court ruled in effect that irresponsible heterosexuals often have children by accident — we gay couples, in contrast, cannot get drunk and adopt in one night — so the state can reserve marriage rights for heterosexuals in order to coerce them into taking care of their offspring. Without the promise of gift registries and rehearsal dinners, it seems, many more newborns in New York would be found in trash cans.
…A perverse cruelty characterizes both [the New York and Washington state] decisions. The courts ruled, essentially, that making my child’s life less secure somehow makes the life of a child with straight parents more secure. Both courts found that making heterosexual couples stable requires keeping homosexual couples vulnerable. And the courts seemed to agree that heterosexuals can hardly be bothered to have children at all — or once they’ve had them, can hardly be bothered to care for them — unless marriage rights are reserved exclusively for heterosexuals. And the religious right accuses gays and lesbians of seeking “special rights.”
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“why not make it a renewable cocartnt system, you get a licence for 1 year, or 2, or 5, or 10 or for eternity,”There used to be a form of this in Ireland, the “Telltown (Tailtiu) marriage. You got married for a year, and had to renew if you wanted to continue. It was associated with Bealtine celebrations at the beginning of May. That suggest it was a very old custom, going back who nows how many millenia, so it’s far more traditional than anything in the Bible. That also suggests why it was suppresed eventually – ore because they were un-Roman that un-Biblical I am sure, along with a lot of other traditional marriage customs, such as the ability of men and women to enter several marriages, as long as they were all legally different, ie with members of legally different classes, so that none of the marriages competed on the same legal footing. “but it is not lost on me all the money waiting to be made by practicing lawyers in the negotiations and breach of cocartnt suits that would flow from totally cocartntualizing unions.”Standard cocartnts for most people, maybe? Boilerplate?Cassandra, that seven-year business may be some folk memory from England, where ironiclaly enough, it appears they no longer have common law marriages. There is still something like this in a related culture, Sweden; it is called a conscience marriage, and it is legally binding. And it has nothing to do with a church weding, so it is probably a pagan survival.
I feel satisfied after reading that one.
I bow down humbly in the presence of such greatness.
Shoot, so that’s that one supposes.
Blimey you did have great haul! Lucky you. Those blankets look cosy, it's been freezing the past few nights.Loving both the shoes and the top, looking forward to seeing the rest of your items being worn.X x