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Originally Posted by willravel
I see allowing gay marriage as a step towards deregulation. Continuing the ban on gay marriage is the continuation of the regulation. I'm not sure, but I believe that we may disagree on this point.
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I think I agree with you here. Legalizing gay marriage would seem to lead to a closer resemblance between legal marriage and the ideal civil union thing. I guess I'd have to know what the ideal means, how a proper civil union (from a libertarianish perspective) would differ from what the government currently does with marriage. But gay marriage would at least establish that legal marriage is a legal contract that doesn't necessarily involve God, tradition, or procreation. (Las Vegas eloping should've already taken care of the first two.)