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My point is that a marriage certificate is a contract with the Government.
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No, it's a contract between spouses. The government merely enforces it.
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If someone does not trust the Government, then they won't want to engage in such a contract.
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What power does the marriage contract give the government? If you don't trust contracts, then you must distrust mortgages, car loans, etc.
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If a Black person distrusts the police, the criminal justice system, the court system, the economic forces of banks, corporations, poor public schools, taxes, etc. they will be less inclined to trust the government in their personal relationships and have control over marriage, divorce, and their finances.
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If a person distrusts all that, they've got bigger problems than not being willing to marry.
But marriage doesn't give the government control of marriage, or divorce, or their finances. Not sure where you get that.
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There are many divorced men who vow to never get married again, from what I've heard.
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Okay. So? There are also plenty of divorced people who remarry.
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The incentives to get married are no longer there.
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The incentives to get married are still quite large. Being able to file joint tax returns lowers your taxes. And with marriage you automatically get, for free, a lot of legal rights that are important to committed couples: rights of survivorship, parental rights, the right to make medical decisions for an incapacitated spouse, etc. It would cost thousands of dollars to set those rights up outside of marriage.
Never mind the social approval aspect. Being married is still more respectable than not being married. Or the relationship aspect: marriage is a vow of commitment to a relationship. A lot of individuals value that from their life partners.
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There are more incentives to remain Free from a government-sanctioned and enforced partnership.
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Like what?