Comments on: Marriage-a-Roni, the San Francisco Treat http://christinatm.blogivists.com/2008/05/28/marriage-a-roni-the-san-francisco-treat/ Burning the candle of liberty at both ends since 2008 Thu, 08 Jan 2009 18:57:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: classicalliberal http://christinatm.blogivists.com/2008/05/28/marriage-a-roni-the-san-francisco-treat/#comment-274 classicalliberal Wed, 28 May 2008 21:17:22 +0000 http://christinatm.blogivists.com/2008/05/28/marriage-a-roni-the-san-francisco-treat/#comment-274 It is essential to liberty that the government stay out of people's bedrooms; it is also essential that the government not restrict whom one can associate with and in what way. Marriage is a private contract and should be treated as such with no government policy to dictate whom can contract with who. Liberty means that neither you nor the government can tell me what kind of family structure to have. I am not cheerleading for Scandanavia or their family style but I notice the piece you reference from the Standard only talks about the decline in marriage as such: it says nothing of whether this has any real negative effect on life quality of the people involved. The article ties the trend to socialism; but there is nothing inherently socialistic about shifting away from the traditional family. Marriage is biologically speaking not very akin to human beings and it seems to me that as knowledge proliferates and lifespans increase people are coming to realize that marriage creates complications that really aren't necessary. Paper contracts, judicial decrees, and religious rights are neither necessary nor sufficient for raising children in a loving environment. It is essential to liberty that the government stay out of people’s bedrooms; it is also essential that the government not restrict whom one can associate with and in what way. Marriage is a private contract and should be treated as such with no government policy to dictate whom can contract with who. Liberty means that neither you nor the government can tell me what kind of family structure to have.

I am not cheerleading for Scandanavia or their family style but I notice the piece you reference from the Standard only talks about the decline in marriage as such: it says nothing of whether this has any real negative effect on life quality of the people involved. The article ties the trend to socialism; but there is nothing inherently socialistic about shifting away from the traditional family.

Marriage is biologically speaking not very akin to human beings and it seems to me that as knowledge proliferates and lifespans increase people are coming to realize that marriage creates complications that really aren’t necessary. Paper contracts, judicial decrees, and religious rights are neither necessary nor sufficient for raising children in a loving environment.

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