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Originally Posted by Elephant Walk
Conceivably, someone who wanted to get married would just do it. However, if you wanted to grant it legal status (in terms of property, children, etc, etc) then a contract would be drawn up outlining the stipulations in order to duck greater legal issues (a pre-nuptial agreement is the best example of this).
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Basically that's what marriage does now, except that all those things you would have to write up separately are codified in a vast multitude of laws and are granted automatically at signing. Honestly the biggest problem with the institution of marriage is that people are unwilling to mentally and emotionally disassociate the religious and personal aspects of marriage from the government benefits.
If it is a legal contract there should be no gender restrictions on it.
I'm not opposed to your ideal EW but I think it's far beyond what's plausible in the forseeable future.
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