Marriage to me is not a religious thing anymore, and I don't see why people who are religious should get married and people that are not should not. Surely it’s a case of "If you’re like us, you'll get certain privileges, if not, boo sucks to you”
Marriage is an act of declaring ones love to the world, to show your complete and utter devotion to that one person. I don’t understand arranged marriages, but that's just me. Apart from that, the law treats married and unmarried couples very differently (such as taxes, insurance and such). If unmarried and you have a child -apart from being condemned and the child labelled a ‘bastard’- the man can really walk away from it if he cannot be found to prove he is indeed the father. In our country, if you can prove they are indeed the father, they’re under legal obligation to pay child support but that is it. If, by another turn of hand, the unmarried couple have a child but spilt up, access will always be given to the mother but the father will not usually be given access by a court. The couple themselves would have to agree visitation rights and so on.
Married couples enter a legal contract and both are given equal rights, whatever the issue. Gay marriage is legal here for both lesbians and gay men. We do not let religion cloud our legal system and/or our parliament.
I’m a ‘bastard’ by birth, my mother labelled a common slut, even although my father and mother lived together for nine years before having me. My father refused to marry my mother because of a build up of debt he had accumulated thanks to his alcohol problem. For that one simple reason, I was condemned by my deeply religious great granparents and never saw them whilst they were still alive. they disowned their grand-daughter (my mum)
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05 Mar 2009, 7:23 am
