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Originally Posted by MysticCat
That would be a fairly standard libertarian view -- that marriage is a contract between two people and that the government has no business being involved in it. From the party's platform: "Government does not have the authority to define, license or restrict personal relationships." Saying churches should be involved is, I think, another way of saying that it is a person's personal values (and religious beliefs, if any), not the law, that should govern what that person does marriage-wise, and people should be free to marry in accordance with their values.
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I used to be a Libertarian, but a lot of the Libertarian positions just don't make sense. What happens if the government gets out of marriage? Spouses are denied the ~1500 rights that are currently granted to them? Some number of these can be arranged individually by legal contract, but the others just disappear? For example, I can make Mr. DBB my beneficiary without the government's help, but I can't give him the right to visit me in the hospital. I guess Ron Paul would say I should choose a different hospital?
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