- Apr 25, 2016
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3. No legal definition of marriage
Advantages: Flexibility for people to do as they like. Gives LGBT all the equality they could reasonably want. Not based on a lie.
Disadvantages: None.
Actually, I disagree that there are no disadvantages if there is no legal definition of marriage. Perhaps once that would have been true, in more primitive cultures, but now so many of our laws and social structures are built around the concept, that it would be extraordinarily difficult to unwind them all.
In particular, for those of us who don't necessarily see our horizons limited to being in the same country for the rest of our lives, unless the entire world were to simultaneously drop any legal definition of marriage, travel and living/working/raising children between different countries would become much more complicated if we, in essence, ceased to have any laws which recognised marriage.
For myself, I'd rather we reform our laws to be more like the French system; separate legal and ceremonial aspects of marriage; make it so that everyone has to go sign papers with a JP or what-have-you to be legally married, and make the ceremonial side of it completely separate and completely optional. (Ie. No more signing papers in church etc).
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