{"id":8131,"date":"2014-02-14T16:53:45","date_gmt":"2014-02-14T16:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/02\/14\/why-privatizing-marriage-cannot-work\/"},"modified":"2014-02-14T16:53:45","modified_gmt":"2014-02-14T16:53:45","slug":"why-privatizing-marriage-cannot-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/02\/14\/why-privatizing-marriage-cannot-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Privatizing Marriage Cannot Work"},"content":{"rendered":"

Francis Beckwith explains<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

As I see it, the right place to start this debate about marriage, same-sex 'marriage,' and privatization is with the logically prior questions: Is state involvement in marriage justified?  and What justifies the state's involvement in marriage?  The only good answers are that (i) state involvement is justified, (ii) because of the state's interest in its own perpetuation via the production of children and their development into productive citizens.  (There is also, secondarily, the protection of those upon whom the burden of procreation mainly falls, women.)  It is the possibility of procreation that justifies the states' recognition and regulation of marriage. But there is no possibility of procreation in same-sex unions.  Therefore, same-sex unions do not deserve to be recognized by the state as marriage.  This is not to oppose civil unions that make possible the transfer of social security benefits, etc.<\/span><\/p>\n

Fuller discussion: Why Not Just 'Privatize' Marriage?<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Francis Beckwith explains. As I see it, the right place to start this debate about marriage, same-sex 'marriage,' and privatization is with the logically prior questions: Is state involvement in marriage justified?  and What justifies the state's involvement in marriage?  The only good answers are that (i) state involvement is justified, (ii) because of the … Continue reading “Why Privatizing Marriage Cannot Work”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marriage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}