If HB569 becomes law in New Hampshire, an age old ritual might play out differently in the future. Instead of a man (or woman) dropping on bended knee to ask, "Will you marry me?" future questioners might simply pose the query, "My love, would you contract with me?"
Here's how Amanda Litman explained the bill on AlterNet:
How about you? What do you think about this idea?
Here's how Amanda Litman explained the bill on AlterNet:
To be exact, the proposed bill, currently in committee, privatizes marriage. The New Hampshire state government would no longer issue marriage licenses; instead, it would grant domestic partnerships. If you wanted to get married in the traditional sense, you’d go to your religious house of choice. If you wanted the legal benefits of marriage as it currently stands, you’d get a domestic partnership. And all this would apply to gay and straight couples alike. A group of Republican members of the New Hampshire state house proposed the bill, coming from the libertarian position that marriage is a contract...You know, I typically don't favor most bills that originate from the GOP, but I certainly could get behind this one.
How about you? What do you think about this idea?
It sounds like a great idea.
ReplyDelete(Assuming that hospitals, businesses, health insurance providers, etc. would not treat domestic partnerships any differently than they would a religious marriage. I can see how certain groups would try funny stuff with this at least at first.)
Great idea.
ReplyDeleteI think any adult human being that wants to get married for whatever reason should be allowed to. Man to woman, man to man, woman to woman, first cousins, etc. If some woman wants to marry her grandmother, so that granny can have insurance benefits, I think they should be allowed to.
Certainly it's been well proven that you don't have to be married to have sex or children, so why would it be an assumed requirement of two people getting married?