Blog Response to: The Institution of Marriage

Blog Post Source: http://gabrielsteinmeyer.wordpress.com/2012/05/11/the-institution-of-marriage/ Response: The overwhelming use of “irreconcilable differences" is a problem, partially due to the ironic attempt of Ronald Reagan and his "No-Fault" Divorce legislation while he was the Governor of California. He wanted to make divorce less painful, but, well, that didn't work. On the topic of "gay marriage" and its effects on the institution of marriage, I believe that if creates a problem by detracting from marriage, not necessarily destroying the current state of marriage. Politically speaking, marriage is a legally recognized union between a man and a women that is supported by the state (by means of tax breaks, etc) for the purpose of providing for the conservative state interest of children. The prolonged future of the state is based on the continuation of its population. A legal marriage is a contract between two people, by which they agree to be together and operate as one, and as such it is the legal assumption that procreation is more than probable. (As a note on the legal assumption of pro-creation, in divorce court, infidelity can be proven by a man or a women spending prolonged time alone behind the closed doors of a private residence. Thus, a man and a women living together, it is usually assumed that they are sleeping together.) The national legalization of "gay marriage" or the legal recognition of same-sex marriage removes the state's legal interest. Often times the argument for "gay marriage" is that they love each other, but love is not the legal purpose of recognizing and supporting a marital union. As related to Reagan's "No-Fault" Divorce legislation, the legal qualification of love (which is sometimes lost in a relationship) can lead to the dissolve of a marriage. This is not to say that love is not an important part of marriage, because it is. Rather, love is not the legal bases for marriage. Love is a strong adhesive in a union and makes a relationship very desirable.