Well, yeah -- it's more simplification and slogan than fully complicated fact.
But for the most part, the government's interest in relationships involve deciding how people can be contractually bound, and what family means, and making sure people don't get hurt where possible (and possibly other things I'm forgetting), rather than "that other stuff".
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Date: 2004-03-17 03:40 pm (UTC)But for the most part, the government's interest in relationships involve deciding how people can be contractually bound, and what family means, and making sure people don't get hurt where possible (and possibly other things I'm forgetting), rather than "that other stuff".