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Entry: Querying the Homintern Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/querying_the_homintern#275 Post contents: I'm still waiting for the first Palimony case, but having watched various halves of divorce contend with support payments and the "friend of the court" collections system and debtor's prisons, I can't imagine anyone wanting to bring this forth on their worst enemy. Of course there is the BDSM contingent, emphasis on the M. But that aside, Jerry Falwell wants you to be saved - and from this family court system too! Though I've noted before, the arguments against extending the franchise of a temporary, easily ended (bankruptcy is harder than divorce), sterile, mutual physical relationship to others is weak precisely because they rarely argue from the full tradition (the one that absolutely prohibited contraception before 1930 - if the preacher caught you with condoms it would have been little different if he caught you with porn). Marriage used to be both a vocation and covenant. The aristocracy sometimes did it for convenience but rarely broke the bonds, now all classes do it for trivial reasons. And finally, whatever the religion or utter lack thereof, or orientation or occidentation, I care more about whomever I support destroying the ability of government to coerce. Which is why this piece is only a part of the greater irony (Edwards and the Bloggers as another example) - We support government expansion to micromanage every aspect of your life and hate you and don't understand why you are fussing. If they supported removing government intrusion (from seatbelts to toilets), go ahead and hate me, I'll vote for you because you would have to use your own sword to implement your hate, not one paid for by the taxpayers. Sent at: 2008 07 06