Marriage Debate

A year ago when I launched this blog I posted this as one of my first articles:

The Sanctity of Marriage Debate What’s Love got to do with it?

An Anarchist Response to The Sanctity of Marriage Debate

Today I see it is still relevant, since there are idiots out there saying this:

Marriage is not merely a right. It is an institution that predates all states.

Once again the christian fundamentalist right wing will try any arguement to deny the reality that Same Sex Marriage is now legal in Canada. And will probably remain so despite the Harper government promise to revist this.

Originally posted by Burkean Canuck, which should tell you something of his politics, aristocratic apologist that Edmund Burke was. Appropriately he has a union jack on his blog page, still thinks we are a bloody colony of the British Empire. Probably a loyalist, slave owners that they were.

Which is not that far off since the Author, Russ Kuykendall is also a Research Director for t the Work Research Foundation.

WRF is a front group for the anti-union right wing labour 'association' CLAC (Christian Labour Association of Canada). Both the WRF and CLAC were founded by members of the Dutch based Christian Reformed Church of Canada. The CRCC was one of the last of the Reformed churches to break with it's partner in Aparthied the CRC of South Africa.

The article was cross posted to the Shotgun blog, where it has generated much heat and little light, around sixty or more comments. Some libertarians going to battle for the fact that human sexual relationships were not based on marriage but on communal sexual relationships in tribes. This is true, they were also not based on private property which is the sole source for the institution of marriage, property relations, as I argued. Matrilinear inheritance was that the child carried the mothers name, not the fathers in these societies.

To sum up my arguement contrary to the B.S. floated around by right wing fundamentalist christians, MARRIAGE IS A STATE INSTITUTION AND A PROPERTY RELATIONSHIP. It is a modern development of the city states of the Ancient world, post Etruscan, where the woman owned property as did her husband, and is codified into law by Greeks and Romans.


A tip o the blog to Ianism for this.

Also see:

Whose Family Values?

Marx on Bigamy

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