If marriage is “a substantive right of two adults who share a loving relationship to join together to establish an officially recognized family of their own” then I guess I’d better inform my Indian friends who went home, married the bride their family selected and returned to America to start a family that they really aren’t married at all since they didn’t start in a “loving relationship.” As Tina said, what’s love got to do with it? And since when has it been any business of the government if a relationship between two adults is loving, caring, manipulative, traditional or simply mutually beneficial?
I guess it’s only a natural conclusion that those who care so adamently in enacting “hate crime” legislation will find a love penumbra within their constitution. As for me, I would rather have a government care more about the law and outcome than my emotions.
