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Because marriage is the problem not the solution. The state should have no role in enforcing religious ceremonies and privileging those who participate. The idea of "marriage equality" is complete bullshit since marriage overtly favors religion, hetero-normativity, etc. Fuck the state. Fuck religion. Fuck their marriage.
Fuck homophobes too ofc, but "marriage equality" is a problem not a solution. Delusional headline.
I agree. Ideally, the government would only have a set of contracts between parties to get certain benefits, such as visitation rights, power of attorney, etc. Cities could offer "marriage" bundles, but IMO "marriage" shouldn't be a concept at the government level, but instead a private affair that you can define any way you like. The government should instead have a separate definition that narrowly defines what they want for whatever the status is being used for (e.g. combined finances for taxes).
That doesn't solve the hate associated with LGBT people, but it does fix access to legal protections/benefits, assuming the contracts don't require certain genders or whatever (not sure why they would).
IMO, we could get pretty far by having people in relationships form corporations, since the overlap I pretty similar to marriage, we'd just need a special form of corporation for family units.