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Poll for Libertarians
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chowan |
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I think as a libertarion the correct answer would be that
government has no business in any marriage to begin with
NONE
but you did not have that in your poll
Quoting: chowan So would it be OK for a brother to marry a sister or father marry a daughter? Its not ok to FK like that that has been taboo since we became civalised and no church i know of would marry under those circumstances so why do we need laws about marriage? ANSWER because the GOV has provided benefits to married people take away those benefits and let the churches do what they want. personally i think marriage is between a man and a woman with the idea they are going to raise childern together but GOV has no business in it But it is a representative government, is it not. Government has created that legal institution (contract) to reflect society's belief that it is societally beneficial. Societies have been recognizing the joining of man and wife in marriage for thousands of years. Additionally government, through the representative process, has set boundaries to prohibit the privilege of marriage to couplings that serve no societal benefit, such as a brother / sister or father / daughter. Could you imagine the generational inbreeding in isolated rural areas if such laws did not exist and the societal consequences of such inbreeding? Societies do have the ability to set boundaries for themselves in situations of self-governance. At best its a states rights issue let them set these boundries do what they want if they want to it should not be a federal GOV issue. The fed GOV was instituted to protect our basic rights and freedoms not to provide benefits to what is deemed to be of societal benefit just look back at prohabition and how well that went.It was for societal benefit as well.
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