Should government be involved in marriage?
Marriage has three aspects:
Religious: state shouldn’t be involved (obviously)
Material: benefits given to certain relationships (civil unions sufficient)
Stuff in between: marriage is important because it signals some sort of societal approval of the act
Nussbaum doubts that this is really as true as proponents claim:
We don’t think of the state as supporting the N’th marriage of some celebrity
Extremely low bar in most states for being able to officiate a marriage
Civil unions analogous to transracial marriage:
People had to fight to not give this a different term since they truly believe it is equal