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Q. From your PoV, what changes would you like to see to the current legal requirements and benefits to marriage that would make life easier or better for you?
A. I would like to see there be absolutely no legal benefits, punishments, consequences, ties, connections, or anything at all based on *romantic* relationships. I want the government out of the relationship regulation business.
I would like to see all the possible and existing benefits, requirements, etc., available as regular civil contracts, to be entered into by anyone who can otherwise enter any legal contract, and to have a few different “package contracts” with some of the more popular benefit/requirement combinations lumped together in ready-made contracts.
And then these would all be legal for anyone to enter into with whomever they choose. They would not be reserved for romantic partnerships, they couldn’t be broken based on whose genitals touch whose (or don’t touch whose), they would be regulated based on relevance to the contracts’ various contents.
That would make my life much easier and better than one giant suite of benefits and requirements (which differ from state to state) that I can only enter into with one person who is obligated to be in a romantic relationship with me in order to provide those benefits that have nothing to do with romance, and for which the government can nullify if some government agent thinks we aren’t sufficiently “romantic” enough or doesn’t like what we choose to do with our own genitals in our spare time.
Q. From your PoV, what changes would you like to see to the current legal requirements and benefits to marriage that would make life easier or better for you?
A. I would like to see there be absolutely no legal benefits, punishments, consequences, ties, connections, or anything at all based on *romantic* relationships. I want the government out of the relationship regulation business.
I would like to see all the possible and existing benefits, requirements, etc., available as regular civil contracts, to be entered into by anyone who can otherwise enter any legal contract, and to have a few different “package contracts” with some of the more popular benefit/requirement combinations lumped together in ready-made contracts.
And then these would all be legal for anyone to enter into with whomever they choose. They would not be reserved for romantic partnerships, they couldn’t be broken based on whose genitals touch whose (or don’t touch whose), they would be regulated based on relevance to the contracts’ various contents.
That would make my life much easier and better than one giant suite of benefits and requirements (which differ from state to state) that I can only enter into with one person who is obligated to be in a romantic relationship with me in order to provide those benefits that have nothing to do with romance, and for which the government can nullify if some government agent thinks we aren’t sufficiently “romantic” enough or doesn’t like what we choose to do with our own genitals in our spare time.
