PHIL 200 Chapter Notes -Oxymoron, Female Body Shape, Borough President
12 Jun 2018
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In this country adultery was automatic grounds for dissolving a marriage before the advent of "No-
fault" divorce; elsewhere, female infidelity has been punished much more harshly.
The compulsive promiscuity of homosexuals thus makes "Homosexual marriage" an oxymoron, a
joke, or an abuse of language.
Rew Sullivan pleads that same-sex unions will be more stable than heterosexual ones because
homosexuals "Understand the need for extramarital outlets." As James Q. Wilson has written in
reply, "We are now referring to two different kinds of arrangements." 18 The liberationist may
rightly ask what is in a name.
Assuming that partners in marriage must by definition intend to be faithful, just call homosexual
unions with outlets for promiscuity something else, say "Flarriage." The issue now becomes whether
the state should recognize homosexual flarriage along with marriage.
Most of the arguments against homosexual "Marriage," now verbally Against Homosexual Liberation
115 transposed, remain in force.
Statutory recognition of flarriage would insult married couples.
Homosexuals wishing to assume the legal burdens of flarriage can do so by private contract.
A tax break for married and flarried couples discriminate against unmarried, unflarried heterosexuals
to just the extent a tax break for marrieds discriminates against flarrieds.
There is thus no reason to, and good reason not to, legalize flarriage.
A thoroughly laissez-faire approach to personal relations that excluded government from all
cohabitation arrangements would partially resolve the marriage dispute.
Adoption by homosexuals would remain forbidden, but otherwise the state would avoid
discriminating against some lifestyles by declining to bless any, leaving marriage a wholly religious
ceremony without civil ramifications.
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