Government hostility towards marriage

[McCulloch]

[...] a government becoming increasingly hostile toward marriage.

Is the government of any major western democracy becoming increasingly hostile towards marriage? Specifically in what ways?

[McCulloch]

1. Men and women of full age, without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion, have the right to marry and to found a family. They are entitled to equal rights as to marriage, during marriage and at its dissolution.
2. Marriage shall be entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses.
3. The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.

Your government and mine were both a very important part of the formulation of this document. I believe that they both remain solidly behind these human rights.

[Bust Nak]

Is the government of any major western democracy becoming increasingly hostile towards marriage? Specifically in what ways?

It's just plain old jealousy. Their marriage is less special, if more people are allowed to get married. Just like how my toys became less special when my sister had one like it.

[micatala]

Is the government of any major western democracy becoming increasingly hostile towards marriage? Specifically in what ways?

It's just plain old jealousy. Their marriage is less special, if more people are allowed to get married. Just like how my toys became less special when my sister had one like it.

I don't think that is really it. For one, millions if not billions of people are currently married. It is not exactly a unique or 'special toy.'

The issue is not that somebody else is getting married, it is who those someone's are. It is not jealousy so much, in my view, but a feeling that these other someone's don't deserve to have 'the toy.'

It would be like people having legos and thinking they should only be used for building things. Then someone else gets legos and decides that each individual lego is going to be a soldier and they're going to have a great battle, or the legos are football players and they are going to run through some X's and O's with the pieces. (Yes, people really do this, and I was one way back when).

"They don't deserve to have legos because they don't play with them right."

[Bust Nak]

It's just plain old jealousy. Their marriage is less special, if more people are allowed to get married. Just like how my toys became less special when my sister had one like it.

I don't think that is really it. For one, millions if not billions of people are currently married. It is not exactly a unique or 'special toy.'

The issue is not that somebody else is getting married, it is who those someone's are. It is not jealousy so much, in my view, but a feeling that these other someone's don't deserve to have 'the toy.'

It would be like people having legos and thinking they should only be used for building things. Then someone else gets legos and decides that each individual lego is going to be a soldier and they're going to have a great battle, or the legos are football players and they are going to run through some X's and O's with the pieces. (Yes, people really do this, and I was one way back when).

"They don't deserve to have legos because they don't play with them right."

I concede: you are absolutely correct, because right now I am thinking you don't deserve to have legos.

[micatala]

It's just plain old jealousy. Their marriage is less special, if more people are allowed to get married. Just like how my toys became less special when my sister had one like it.

I don't think that is really it. For one, millions if not billions of people are currently married. It is not exactly a unique or 'special toy.'

The issue is not that somebody else is getting married, it is who those someone's are. It is not jealousy so much, in my view, but a feeling that these other someone's don't deserve to have 'the toy.'

It would be like people having legos and thinking they should only be used for building things. Then someone else gets legos and decides that each individual lego is going to be a soldier and they're going to have a great battle, or the legos are football players and they are going to run through some X's and O's with the pieces. (Yes, people really do this, and I was one way back when).

"They don't deserve to have legos because they don't play with them right."

I concede: you are absolutely correct, because right now I am thinking you don't deserve to have legos.

Well, I am not giving you mine. Nyaah, nyaah, nyaah!

[stickmanmob]

Realistically, I think there absolutely is a war on marriage. When people cannot get married, of course there is going to be an outcry. The government is fighting a defensive war, but it is a war nonetheless. What happened to separation of church and state? The only reason homosexual marriage is not allowed is because people who are religious do not believe it is right. But who gave them the right to decide what is good for everyone. What if I don't believe your beliefs? This "war" is bringing our nation down a path it does not want to go down, a path of religious dictation and control.

[JoeyKnothead]

[...] a government becoming increasingly hostile toward marriage.

Is the government of any major western democracy becoming increasingly hostile towards marriage?

The American'n.

Specifically in what ways?

They's fixing to let them dang gheys do it, in violation of DOMA, God, The Bible, and everything else it is I declare them folks ought'n ever do what here it is some of us good right Christians have done us on multiple occasions.

And the very next thing they'll do, they'll kick in the doors of my church, and scream "Faaaabulooouuusss"!