It seems to me that the Conservative Right as well as the Liberal Left, both want to retain state control of Marriage. The Right wants to maintain the traditions and heritage, to protect it as it has been. The Left wants retain control in order to redefine the family in order to destroy the family as we know it, as it always has. It seems to me that in this the homosexuals have become unwitting pawns. Sammie's Marx comment's the other day got me doing some Marxist reading. This goes all the way back to Marx:
Abolition [Aufhebung] of the family! Even the most radical flare up at this infamous proposal of the Communists.
On what foundation is the present family, the bourgeois family, based? On capital, on private gain. In its completely developed form, this family exists only among the bourgeoisie. But this state of things finds its complement in the practical absence of the family among the proletarians, and in public prostitution.
The bourgeois family will vanish as a matter of course when its complement vanishes, and both will vanish with the vanishing of capital.
Do you charge us with wanting to stop the exploitation of children by their parents? To this crime we plead guilty.
But, you say, we destroy the most hallowed of relations, when we replace home education by social.
BTS