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Comment author: DanielLC 07 June 2012 05:34:31AM -1 points [-]

It is a government issue, and it is a good point. I don't think (but I'm not sure) that it's not good enough on its own.

At the very least, the government should stay out of marriage when possible, and they should keep everything optional (perhaps you don't want your spouse to inherit your stuff).

If it is a government issue, then marriage in the U.S. is a government issue as well...

It's fuzzy. That means that it's at least a little a government issue, but not necessarily important enough that they really should do it. You could find some reason why the government should care about anything.

Comment author: TheOtherDave 07 June 2012 02:09:14PM 0 points [-]

I'm not saying "the government should care about who gets my house, and marriage relates to that decision, and therefore marriage should be a government issue."
I'm saying "right now, today, in the real world, the government does care about who gets my house, and marriage relates to that decision, and therefore marriage is, right now, a government issue."

As I said initially:

Perhaps if the government was not involved in any issues like that, to which the social status of my husband and me were relevant, I would agree with you that our status was a purely social issue and not a government one. That might even be an improvement over the current situation. I'm not sure. But it's not the situation I'm in.

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