How about we remove marriage from all laws and make it household contracts instead? Why shouldn’t I be able to put my brother on my health insurance, for example?
We are so focused on gay rights to marry that we are missing the actual problem which is simply the legal benefits a marriage provides.
Because it’s not about helping people. If it was, putting someone on your insurance wouldn’t be a thing in the first place. It’s about reinforcing a nuclear family. You and your brother (hopefully) aren’t planning on making babies, so the government isn’t getting anything from investing in you. I mean, we know they are, but that’s not how they think.
For what it’s worth, I think marriage as an institution makes sense, seeing as it serves to predesignate a person as an emergency contact/inheritor. It also protects people that would otherwise need a bespoke contract for things like stay at home spouses.
How about we remove marriage from all laws and make it household contracts instead? Why shouldn’t I be able to put my brother on my health insurance, for example?
We are so focused on gay rights to marry that we are missing the actual problem which is simply the legal benefits a marriage provides.
Because it’s not about helping people. If it was, putting someone on your insurance wouldn’t be a thing in the first place. It’s about reinforcing a nuclear family. You and your brother (hopefully) aren’t planning on making babies, so the government isn’t getting anything from investing in you. I mean, we know they are, but that’s not how they think.
For what it’s worth, I think marriage as an institution makes sense, seeing as it serves to predesignate a person as an emergency contact/inheritor. It also protects people that would otherwise need a bespoke contract for things like stay at home spouses.
That’s my point. It shouldn’t be tied to marriage, but should be a contract between anybody who needs it vs dealing with everything alone if single.
Because health insurance is gay, duh
Wow, huh. I’m surprised health insurance is still legal.
What is a “household contract”?
How would eliminating the legal concept of marriage accomplish that?
Why do you see “legal benefits a marriage provides” as a problem?