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Marriage Equality? First, Justify Marriage (If You Can)

By Alliance Alert

SSRN: "What public health and policy goals are we trying to further with laws recognizing and subsidizing marriage? How do the signals sent by privileging marriage advance or compromise those goals? Is there a continued justification for marriage, and, if so, ought we consider changing its prerogatives in ways that will further the public good? What might those ways be, and how will (or could) we know whether we have succeeded? This brief Article raises and explores these questions, and asks whether and to what extent the current privileging of marriage is (or is not) justified."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on July 06, 2009 (boomark / email).