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[asterroc]

Scanning the various ballot measures listed by CNN, it turns out that Arkansas has a ballot initiative to prevent adoptions or fostering by unmarried couples - straight or gay. Glad to know they consider me an evil sinner too!

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[zandperl.livejournal.com]

Right now I'm all for outlawing marriage.

[marquiswildbill.livejournal.com]

How about now? ;p

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

"Can you hear me now?" ;)

[marquiswildbill.livejournal.com]

"what about now?"

[rosefox]

Civil unions all around? Or nothing of the sort, it's all contract law to be individualized as one sees fit?

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

When I originally posted that comment my thought was "no civil unions whatsoever" - basically the state should have no stake whatsoever in the relationship between two individuals. However what prompted my comment to marquiswildbill was a previous comment elsewhere that my opinion regrading marriage changes every ten minutes.

While writing this, I find myself disliking the idea of individualized contracts for multiple reasons. For example some of us may be unwilling or unable to hire a lawyer to draw up an indivdualized contract - doing away with a standard contract but allowing individualized ones means that low-income people will be entirely unable to get any of the benefits of marriage, and I would be very against such discrimination. I also like the idea of having some standard contract so that for most people quick decisions can be made in emergency situations, for example a hospital knowing who can make medical decisions for a patient if s/he is brought in already unconscious.

[rosefox]

You might be interested in karenbynight's post on the state's interest in marriage.

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

Thanks for that link, definitely interesting.