{"id":169,"date":"2005-02-18T00:44:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-18T00:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/?p=169"},"modified":"2005-02-18T00:44:00","modified_gmt":"2005-02-18T00:44:00","slug":"marriage-and-civil-unions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/?p=169","title":{"rendered":"Marriage and Civil Unions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Life> Not much sleep this week, but Body&#8217;s been treating me well.  After being on edge Monday and Tuesday from lack of sleep, he was totally refueled on 7.5 hours.  Then, last night, I left my keys at Olin and had to sleep in a lounge at MIT, but Body kicked me off my couch after 5 hours and told me to catch my train.<\/p>\n<p>Politics> In <u>Don&#8217;t Think of an Elephant<\/u>, Lakoff has a discussion of conservative and liberal frames for thinking about same-sex marriage and notes the divide between pragmatic progressives, who see civil unions as a sufficient option for homosexuals, and idealistic progressives, who feel full marriage must be an option for everyone.  But I&#8217;m confused.  My opinion is neither (or both?) and I don&#8217;t see how the others are justified in light of it from a liberal outlook.  So I want to realize my blindness.  Below is my thought on this.  Does anyone know a good article for why this view isn&#8217;t more widely taken?<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The ultimate solution to this problem is for all references to &#8220;marriage&#8221; to be removed from the law, and for the benefits currently conferred by it to be made available through a much more general system, which would have no reference to gender.  Churches could have whatever internal definition of marriage they want, though.\n<li>However, as long as the government is officially sanctioning marriage for heterosexuals, civil unions for others are grossly inadequate, socially.\n<\/ol>\n<p>As to whether same-sex civil unions in the meantime are &#8220;good policy&#8221;, because they&#8217;ll pave the way to the ultimate solution, or &#8220;bad policy&#8221;, because they&#8217;ll take pressure away from getting the ultimate solution, then, is just a matter of predictive sociology, assuming we can get to the end goal within our lifetimes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life> Not much sleep this week, but Body&#8217;s been treating me well. After being on edge Monday and Tuesday from lack of sleep, he was totally refueled on 7.5 hours. Then, last night, I left my keys at Olin and had to sleep in a lounge at MIT, but Body kicked me off my couch &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/?p=169\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Marriage and Civil Unions<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}