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Entry: Querying the Homintern Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/querying_the_homintern#310 Post contents: A point that should be made is that the notion of "gay marriage" could not have come about had the character of marriage not already been altered and debased from what it traditionally was. Marriage originally existed as a sort of compromise between the unrestrained sexual desire of the male, and the need of the female for security and to provide for the upbringing of her children. It also dealt with the inheritance of the marital estate through such legal constructs as primogeniture, dower and curtesy. None of these have relevance to a homosexual partnership. The problem of what to do with children has increasingly been resolved by contraception and abortion, while the inheritance of property is considered a reprehensible activity, somewhat like drinking liquor or smoking tobacco, and like them is highly taxed. Marriage is now all about entitlement to fringe benefits from employers and the government, and to privileged status in taxation. These are legal artifacts of relatively recent origin. Instead of extending the dubious benefits of the debased institution of modern marriage (including modern divorce) to homosexuals, it would be better for all if we abandoned the apparatus of welfarism and redistributive taxation which brought us to this pretty pass. Marriage could then again offer its traditional advantage to the union of a male and female with intentions of raising a family. Such an institution would confer no benefits on homosexuals and there would be no demand amongst them for it. Sent at: 2008 07 24