Some college kids in California have filed a ballot initiative to do just what I’ve been advocating: get the government out of the marriage business. No surprise, the media are largely getting it wrong, calling it a “gay marriage initiative” and suggesting it’s a joke.
The boys’ initiative would erase “marriage” from the legal books and grant everyone the right to “domestic partnerships,” gay or straight. It’s unclear to me whether the contract would have to be a sexual one, or if you could create a union with your sister, friend, cousin, whatever, for purposes of life partnership, sexual or not.
I first learned of this from a libertarian-leaning blog in my home state, which got the point better than the MSM mostly did, although he did file the post under “gays.” Are other posts tagged “straights”? “Squares”? “Bigots”?
And the initiative sponsors don’t have quite the right analysis of their brilliant idea, calling it a “compromise.” There’s nothing compromising about it. It's a radical departure in the right direction. See my blog post on the subject.
Anyway, way to go, boys.
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