The Far-Right preaches "Family Values" along with their preaching of protecting the "sanctity" of marriage. My question is, why don't they stand higher on these issues, which are related to their beliefs:
-Making marriage illegal for infertile persons?
-Ridding of Prenuptial Agreements?
-Heightening the requirements for, if not banning entirely, divorce?
-Preventing marriage to persons whom don't want to have children?
If they stand for "The American Family", shouldn't they stand for these issues too?
2007-10-26 10:16:46 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Government
Because they Are Happy With Obvious Contradictions?
2007-10-26 10:50:07 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
An interesting thing about government and how it operates is: it "discriminates." Government chooses to ban A, but does not ban B, C, D, or E, even though all five things are relatively similar.
I would guess that conservatives who support family values are not going to try to ban all of the other things you mention because they would recognize the futility -- it would be like the early 20th Century experiment with banning alcohol.
But "marriage has always been defined as a union between a man and a woman." Yes, it has ALWAYS been defined that way. Even in Black's Law Dictionary. Have you read the Massachusetts Court's ruling on gay marriage? That court talked about the traditional definition of marriage as defined in law.
Conservatives want to preserve A, without making a futile effort of also trying to create new laws which also banned B, C, D, and E. It's called discrimination, and it happens all the time.
2007-10-26 18:01:14 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Because if they made divorce harder to get, they wouldn't be able to dump their wives for their much younger mistresses. And if they didn't pass the fertility test, they wouldn't be able to marry. And would all marriages be dissolved when one partner or the other was shown to be infertile?
2007-10-26 17:59:37 · answer #3 · answered by VeggieTart -- Let's Go Caps! 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
interesting premise, however, believing in a strict defininition of marriage does not automatically mean that they have to agree with any or all of the other things you mention. Your logic has serious flaws in it.
2007-10-26 18:05:43 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋