The ideal libertarian solution would be to have the government get out of the 'marriage' business altogether; to have government enforce civil contracts...
But since we don't live in Libertopia, we're left with a purely civil legal privilege available to one set of people, but not to another set... the civil legal privileges of marriage should be extended to everybody.
Sunday, June 11, 2006
The Libertarian Case for Gay Marriage
Here's a link to a well thought out post over at QandO by Jon Henke on the subject of same-sex marriage.