The Victorian Government have been debating a new relationship register that will enable couples to formally register their relationship. So, two people love each other, or two people live together, can register their relationship and enjoy some of the rights that married couples enjoy.
The debate has been quite interesting (see here for the Hansard) and clearly split on party lines. The Labour party all for it, and the Liberal Nationals having a ‘free’ vote. The objections to this register centre mostly around it somehow debasing marriage. Marriage between a man and a woman that is. Somehow this marriage thing, that forms a family for the raising of children, forms the fundamental building block of our society, and we mess with it at our peril. The notion is that if you allow same-sex couples to register their relationship and give them the same rights as a married couple that somehow that will bring our civilisation to its knees.
I don’t get that.
How?
What possible impact does the recognition of same-sex relationships, in a legal sense, have on our society. Will it stop dicked men and dickless women from having babies? And so what if men and women don’t get married and instead simply enter the relationship register, how does that diminish the love, care and affection they share for each other? How will it stop them from raising some children?
It won’t. We don’t need marriage in a traditional sense. It’s long past its use by date. People will continue to have sex, some of those people will have babies because of that sex, some of those people will live together for a very long time and raise said babies, some of them will run away and want nothing to do with them.
Having children is important, you can’t have them and not be responsible for them, perhaps that should be the focus of our politicians and stop being hung up on who wants to be a family and who doesn’t.
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