Good point -

[kyburg]

One of my old-timers, the_alchemist, makes a very valid point this morning:

On the one hand, I don't see any reason why heterosexual relationships should be given special legal privileges over homosexual ones, but on the other, I don't see why sexual relationships should be given special legal privileges over non-sexual ones.

A very valid point, indeed. As it's has been popular to mention when talking about same-sex marriage, it's not about the sex. So what's it all about?

Discuss.

Oh, and if that's not enough for you? theferrett is have a free-for-all over at his place over If you're dressed like that, can't I think you're hot? Of course, does one need to wear a burka if you're NOT on the meat market?

Oh. And this?



Ew.

Comments

[phoenix--rising.livejournal.com]

Marriage itself is Christian religious ceremony.

I think that the legal aspects of "marriage" should be renamed, so to speak, as a civil union.

[jaina.livejournal.com]

I have to respectfully disagree that marriage is just a Christian religious ceremony. Certainly that might be how it's started (though I'm not really schooled enough in history to say) but at this point it's evolved beyond that.

Personally, I don't feel the need to get nitpicky about the name--whether it's called marriage or a civil union or a horse's patoot should be up to the people involved in it. But then that kind of common sense tends to be lost on those who believe that gay marriage will cause them or burst out into ebola or something.

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

NOT CHRISTIAN. Religious. *laughs* I work with too many other religions besides my own to make that kind of a statement.

But marriage is a religious function - civil status notwithstanding.

[jaina.livejournal.com]

Hey, I'm not the one who said Christian, don't yell at me. :P

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

*searches for the end of the thread*

Gee, does this thing fire comment notification to everyone who adds to a thread, or just the originator?

Marriage as a term didn't begin with the Christians, all-y'all....

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

There were public hearings about gay marriage before the bill was presented, ane that was one of the alternative options suggested.

Married hets lost their minds at the very suggestion. shrug

[http://users.livejournal.com/little_e_/]

funny how jews and muslims manage to get married within their own faiths, then... not to mention all of those hindus and buddhists who don't even believe in the god of the patriarchs! i'm sure they'll all be shocked to find out that they've been performing a christian ceremony all this time...