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Adam Cooper Says:
Less work in the matrimonial jurisdiction perhaps, but no less work for family lawyers. The explosion of couples entering into and subsequently abandoning “de facto relationships” will see to that.
In Melbourne recently I was asked (perhaps a better description is “demanded”) to sign a petition seeking law reform for gay people to marry. Whilst I admired the commitment of the protagonists, I wondered why it was that gay people, who by their very nature have constructed a counter-culture or counter-lifestyle, would want to direct their energies into being “allowed” to enter into an institution which is steeped in religious conservatism, social and cultural normatisms and is perhaps now permanently flawed.
I actually would have thought those in the gay community, whose predilections (admittedly archetypically) do not just extend to creative forms of sexual behaviour, could direct their energies to create a different, perhaps better, relationship institution than marriage. Interestingly, I often see on television portrayals of gay weddings overseas. Vary rarely are they attended with the same strictured fussiness and bling as occasions heterosexual weddings. They are, usually, anarchic and bacchanalian affairs, and I, for one, think rightly so. So my call to the gay community is to abandon any desire to marry and invent your own way of celebrating and consummating relationships.
Either way, I don’t think it will mean any less work for family lawyers. Perhaps we might have to reinvent ourselves as “relationship lawyers.”
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