Kinda tricky to answer many of the questions in the poll if like me you don't believe that married (or co-habiting) couples should have any more rights or protection under the law than any other members of society.
I don't believe the government should have any truck with "marriage", but of course if individuals want to get married, then that's a private contract and that's fine. If the government thinks it's a good idea to offer tax incentives to the married (and I guess the biggie here is gifts and inheritance AFAIUI) then that's fine, but I don't see what it has to do with marriage. Just file a form JDT113a at your tax office (and this could declare an arrangement between you and your spouse, you and your daughter, or you and your bestie, whatever. At most one such arrangement per person). Personally I don't think that cohabiting or marriage should confer any sort of tax advantage (and in particular, no inheritance tax advantage), but I'm happy living in a society that does otherwise.
Marriage is a contract of mutual support and shared arrangments, the divorce courts should be open to anyone that can show they had a similar contract (written or unwritten) even if it wasn't marriage. I just skimmed the article and I guess it's saying the same thing. Not really sure I count access to a court as "right", but I suppose so.
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I don't believe the government should have any truck with "marriage", but of course if individuals want to get married, then that's a private contract and that's fine. If the government thinks it's a good idea to offer tax incentives to the married (and I guess the biggie here is gifts and inheritance AFAIUI) then that's fine, but I don't see what it has to do with marriage. Just file a form JDT113a at your tax office (and this could declare an arrangement between you and your spouse, you and your daughter, or you and your bestie, whatever. At most one such arrangement per person). Personally I don't think that cohabiting or marriage should confer any sort of tax advantage (and in particular, no inheritance tax advantage), but I'm happy living in a society that does otherwise.
Marriage is a contract of mutual support and shared arrangments, the divorce courts should be open to anyone that can show they had a similar contract (written or unwritten) even if it wasn't marriage. I just skimmed the article and I guess it's saying the same thing. Not really sure I count access to a court as "right", but I suppose so.