May. 26th, 2009 01:11 pm
Interesting
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textualdevianceSo, the CA Prop 8 ruling came in, and there's an interesting bit in the decision that upholds their previous decision--that same-sex couples must be afforded all the rights and privileges of opposite-sex couples--while acknowledging that the amendment itself restricts the word "marriage" to opposite-sex couples. (This upholds CA's DP law, btw.)
Thus, the simplest way to resolve this? Simply change the name of the civil contract. Everything else about it would remain the same. It would just be called "legal partnership" or "civil union" or "contract of domestic legal and financial interdependency" or some other fun, bureacratic name. "Marriage" licenses would be "civil union" licenses. A certificate of "marriage" would be "certificate of civil partnership." Something like that.
The hardcore people who want the M word can still get it. They'd just have to get it from their clergy, because the M word would have no meaning in a legal sense. The civil contract--which is what this whole thing is about in the first place--would just be called something else.
Not that this will make any sense to the genetic rejects who don't get the difference between Holy Matrimony and the civil contract. But hey, it's a start.
Thus, the simplest way to resolve this? Simply change the name of the civil contract. Everything else about it would remain the same. It would just be called "legal partnership" or "civil union" or "contract of domestic legal and financial interdependency" or some other fun, bureacratic name. "Marriage" licenses would be "civil union" licenses. A certificate of "marriage" would be "certificate of civil partnership." Something like that.
The hardcore people who want the M word can still get it. They'd just have to get it from their clergy, because the M word would have no meaning in a legal sense. The civil contract--which is what this whole thing is about in the first place--would just be called something else.
Not that this will make any sense to the genetic rejects who don't get the difference between Holy Matrimony and the civil contract. But hey, it's a start.
