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Re:Firefox usage is down despite Mozilla's top exec pay goin... by cultus on Thursday September 24, 2020 @10:47AM (#24579098)
A marriage is a legal contract, not a piece of paper promising fidelity. Fidelity has not mattered legally for a while now.

Romantic pairing is a common enough human thing that it makes sense to have legal constructs to protect both parties. If you are affording these protections to opposite-sex couples, then it is blatant discrimination not to do the same for same-sex couples. There is no rational basis for making such a restriction, after all.

Legal marriage, as in a civil arrangement, isn't really a right. However, being treated equally under the law is a right.

I am an atheist and yet I am married. I know other atheists who are married. Marriage can have religious aspects, but it doesn't have to.

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Re:Firefox usage is down despite Mozilla's top exec pay goin... by dotancohen on Thursday September 24, 2020 @07:45PM (#24584994) 

  > Romantic pairing is a common enough human thing that it
  > makes sense to have legal constructs to protect both parties.
Why does either party need protection in a romantic pairing? I've been in dozens of romantic pairings but I did the religious ceremony only with the pairing that was expected to produce children.
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