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12-23-2006 8:16 AM275 views
jklugman says:
After decades of catering to straight people's desires to ahve the advantages of marriage without its costs, through cohabitation regimes and no-fault divorce, it is unfair to draw the line with gay and lesbian couples...If you really want to combat the expanded choice norm, it would be much more powerful to revoke no-fault divorce or cohabitation regimes...astoundingly, these are the two reforms most social conservatives are not pressing....Under this logic, American society should swallow the liberalizations we have already adopted to accommodate the choices straight people want to have, even though this prochoice regime significantly undermines marriage and facilitates divorce--and should rescue marriage from decline by denying gay people eligibility for it, even though it is highly speculative that such denila would have any effect on the institution.
Eskridge & Spedale, Gay Marriage: For Better or for Worse, p. 189.
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