<div class="gmail_quote">On 19 June 2012 16:50, Kelly Anderson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kellycoinguy@gmail.com" target="_blank">kellycoinguy@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Here's a libertarian idea for you... how about the government gets the<br>
hell out of legislating anything with regards to human relationships<br>
altogether? How about I'm against same sex marriage, opposite sex<br>
marriage, marriage to toasters, marriages to animals, or any marriage<br>
whatsoever. Wouldn't that be consistent with a libertarian approach?<br></blockquote><div><br>One wonders in fact why "marriage" should be recognised ad generating legal effects in the first place.<br><br>It is certainly not a matter of "freedom" when exactly the same goals can be achieved, with much fewer intrusive nanny-state regulations, through contracts, wills, joint-property regimes, trusts, etc.<br>
<br>So, advocacy for gay marriage sounds to me pretty similar to the hypothetical one objecting to "discriminatory" rules preventing Geminis or vegerarians to sell themselves into slavery, and I am used to say that I am in favour only inasmuch as its advocates are also in favour of poligamic, poliandric, group-, interspecific, time-limited, incestuous, chaste and with-oneself marriages as well.<br>
</div></div><br>-- <br>Stefano Vaj<br>