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Originally Posted by alansmithee
If this is true, and is interpreted that way in the courts, I think it's a great first step toward marriage reform, and I hope that more states go into this direction. Marriage shouldn't have anything to do with the government. If people want to get married, they should recieve no special benefits whatsoever. Now, all we need is to have hospitals relax visitation policies and we will be totally on the right path.
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While I might agree that marriage shouldn't have anything to do with the government, I'm not sure that this was "a great first step". If you don't want marriage have anything to do with the government, a great first step would be eliminating marriage from government oversight rather than restricting marriage rights to a particular group.