I’d be outraged…

I’d be outraged if the courts said that two lizards could become married.

I wouldn’t.

What does it matter who (or what) the government says can get married? What makes them an authority whose opinion is worth caring about? Good marriages don’t depend on the government’s consent and bad marriages aren’t made better through the government’s busybodying.

The problem is that marriage is properly (1) a civil ritual and (2) a religious sacrament, and I don’t see why any respect at all — even the minimal respect involved in treating something as a serious matter for outrage — is due to the government’s arbitrary meddling with either.

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