Why Orson Scott Card should never be given the podium...

[bovil]

This just in from Cheryl Morgan:

In the Mormon Times, Orson Scott Card publishes a strident call for revolution against governments that allow LGBT people to get married:

How long before married people answer the dictators thus: Regardless of law, marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts to change it is my mortal enemy. I will act to destroy that government and bring it down, so it can be replaced with a government that will respect and support marriage, and help me raise my children in a society where they will expect to marry in their turn.

Comments

[bovil.livejournal.com]

I used to think that the government should just take "marriage" off the books.

Marriage as a legal construct (not a sacrament, I couldn't give a rat's ass about sacrament for the most part), though, is important. It's given standing in society and law that basic contract law is not afforded.

I've watched too many people who have done their due diligence, created ironclad wills and trusts, and still lost their whole lives because some outsider estranged "family" member came in with better sleazier lawyers and got the contracts and agreements invalidated.

[howeird]

Nah, I don't buy it. The party with the best lawyer (usually the party with the most money and/or greed) wins, regardless of the piece of paper. Take palimony, for example. And also coming from the opposite direction, I don't want a prson's will to be overturned because someone with a piece of paper saying they are married contests it.