112. juliet:
What I don’t understand if marriage is such a wonderful thing & a civil right, why did the femminist movement of the 60’s & 70’s equate marriage to slavery for women. And again if it is a civil right then should the government out law living together as being against the civil right of people. Please someone explain
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Juliet, it’s simple: It’s not marriage, it’s you — little, disingenuous You. The feminist movement was protesting the legal terms of marriage and the status of women in those days. I’ll give you an example: My mother, who worked hard all her life, saved her money, and advised my father on many investments, decided to buy some land of her own in the 1970s. Guess what? She needed my father’s “permission.” She needed his name on the escrow papers. If he had said No, it would have been No. Got that? She couldn’t use the fruit of her own labor to make a purchase for which she was perfectly qualified unless her husband allowed it.
Next item: please look at the author of this article. It is Cynthia Yockey, not “the femminist movement of the 60’s & 70’s.” Don’t make Cynthia responsible for “the feminist movement,” however dubiously interpreted.
Finally, what? If marriage is a civil right then should we outlaw living together as being against a civil right? juliet, rights — such as free speech and freedom to assemble — are things we exercise freely, not things we exercise by coercion. If you choose to skip a Tea Party or decide not to write to your congressperson today, that’s not illegal.
