Another ban on gay marriage has been overturned, and folks in Milwaukee and elsewhere have flocked to the county clerk’s office to get their relationship state-certified.
I get that this opens up the doors so that your partner can qualify for benefits of various type, and no idiot hospital or petty family member can deny the right to visit your sick or injured spouse, but the whole issue of the state interfering with gay marriage raises a broader question.
Why do you need the state’s sanction for the religious ceremony known as a wedding? What right does the state have to impose itself on a personal relationship? Show me where “defining marriage” is a legitimate responsibility of the state.
Of course the state will eventually make gay marriage legal everywhere – selling marriage licenses is a revenue stream. The more, the merrier.
Rather than having gays argue for the “right” to get a marriage license, perhaps people of all inclinations should examine whether the state ought to be in the business of licensing marriages.
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