I agree with everything you said though no.3 I'm not too sure about. However it's the loose terms 'legal' and 'illegal' that are dangerous ideas IMHO.
eg What laws make a relationship illegal? Only 'legal' as in being recognised in law for the purposes of inheritance, pension rights, tax concessions and the like.
It's only a piece of paper, but if you want to be married 'in the eyes of god' what happens when both are non-believers? Is that 'legal'?
Too many look round at others to find fault so as to claim some moral high ground.
I don't go to mythical places with strange men.
-- Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul.
I agree with everything you said though no.3 I'm not too sure about. However it's the loose terms 'legal' and 'illegal' that are dangerous ideas IMHO.
eg What laws make a relationship illegal? Only 'legal' as in being recognised in law for the purposes of inheritance, pension rights, tax concessions and the like.
It's only a piece of paper, but if you want to be married 'in the eyes of god' what happens when both are non-believers? Is that 'legal'?
Too many look round at others to find fault so as to claim some moral high ground.
I don't go to mythical places with strange men.
-- Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul.