On the civil law, Part 1: General issues.
In the past few months, I've heard the issue of gay marriage being debated on a number of fronts, like "civil rights," "the sanctity of the institution," and so on. But on thinking about it, I've realized that there's a separate issue involved: The existence of civil law. Since this seems to have implications substantially beyond this one issue, I thought I'd put some notes about it here.
This first part is of a general nature: It's about the whole idea of civil law and why it's important. Part 2 will talk about the applications of this idea to specific political issues.
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