The random political thoughts thread (Part Deux)

[Alex]

He's right, to a degree, though. The only even remotely reasonable justification for government sanctioning of marriage is as a device for creating a automatic protections for children. Ideally this would mean that marriage would only be available as a state sanctioned institution once children are produced of course. But then this still wouldn't necessarily preclude homosexuals (as this need for protection extends to the guardianship responsibilities not just the fact that you personally own or have visited the vagina through which it was extruded).

For marriage as it exists (where people can do it all willy nilly), there is no reasonable justification at all for state involvement of any type.