I knew that Elton John was more than just a brilliant musician. At a New York City charity event Elton weighed in on the gay marriage debate with his perspective, as a gay man with a civil partner.
"We’re not married, let’s get that straight. We have a civil partnership…I don’t want to be married! I’m very happy with a civil partnership. The word ‘marriage,’ I think, puts a lot of people off. You get the same equal rights that we do when we have a civil partnership. Heterosexual people get married. We can have civil partnerships."
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If Mr. John likes his civil partnership, that is fine. However, a civil partnership sounds like a Quebec federalist economic union between Quebec and the rest of Canada. A marriage is a country. A marriage is more than an economic union. It goes beyond economics and involves love, family, and commitment. A marriage has the status like a nation-state rather than a colony.
Analogies are fine but one should remember they are merely that and can often, as in this above case, be quite absurd. A civil union by definition involves commitment, it may also involve some version of love and it may also involve some version of family. Reducing civil unions to merely "economics" is a rather categorical assessment of the participants motives and aspirations. Elton John makes sense - except to those more interested in labels than content.
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