The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #43971   Message #645433
Posted By: GUEST
08-Feb-02 - 01:30 PM
Thread Name: opinion-Is This Discrimination?
Subject: RE: opinion-Is This Discrimination?
No, for some of us who feel the institution of marriage is an oppressive one, the answer is NOT to simply get married. It is to get equal rights to married couples, under the law.

If I am a law-abiding, tax paying citizen, in a committed long-term relationship with a partner of the opposite sex, why shouldn't I have the same rights as a married person? Why does our society afford special rights to married people that it doesn't extend to people doing the exact same thing as married people, without the legal sanctions of the state?