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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2008-11-08 04:59 pm

[ SECRET POST #673 ]


⌈ Secret Post #673 ⌋

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[identity profile] ronsard.livejournal.com 2008-11-08 11:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Because when you don't call it "marriage", people will take issue regardless of how similar the two concepts are. Even if civil unions receive the exact same governmental benefits that civil marriages do now, not everyone will see it as the same thing, and you will have a lot of problem convincing Middle America to give up their "marriages" in favor of the new system. Not to mention the people who do not have the option of having their marriages sanctioned by the church, and I'm not just talking about same-sex couples. Where do they go? How will you win their support?

In the end, you can argue all you want that marriage is a social construct and civil rights are all about legal benefits, but I maintain that this is not the pragmatic argument. Our system already upholds the difference between civil and religious marriage, and I believe that this is where the fight has always been and should continue to be - until the church can no longer interfere with the civil rights of people. Trying to change people's belief about an institution that's been in existence longer than history books, how is that a more feasible alternative?

(Anonymous) 2008-11-09 12:02 am (UTC)(link)
To make society grow out of marriage slowly. You slowly eliminate government-endorsed marriage by making Civil Unions more and more like it. In 80 years, perhaps, society will be ready to abandon government-endorsed marriage.

[identity profile] ronsard.livejournal.com 2008-11-09 12:12 am (UTC)(link)
To be frank, the backlash that would come from instigating such a movement would likely hurt the fight for same-sex couples to receive equal rights long before universal civil unions can be realized and accepted. Well-conceived in theory, but it won't work.