
Originally Posted by
fast
Consider the following: each union between a couple will be equally treated under the law with all rights and privledges afforded to one and all so long as unions between heterosexuals are regarded as a marriage and homosexual unions are regarded as a narriage.
That would not work, though.
The 'rights and privileges afforded' to a married couple are not all listed in one document. For example a hospital ward will have a policy about who gets to visit the patient, specifying specific blood relations and 'the married spouse.'
An entirely different document would list the details of a medical proxy to include the spouse.
Which means either we legislate that each and every agency, business, and legal decision be amended to include 'narried spouse,' or it'll take several hundred court cases to establish precedents so that each and every instance of 'married' rights be extended to the narried couple.
Also, I don't think that this would pass the Lemon Law. What's the secular purpose in creating a 'narriage,' and giving selfish superstitious people a monopoly on the secular legal partnership of a 'marriage?'