Not to go all political on everyone. But check out this sick marriage quote I found that references some movie lines. It's from tha 9th Cir. decision (
Perry v. Brown, 671 F.3d 1052, 1078 (9th Cir. 2012)) that's going up to the SC for review. Pretty good stuff bw,
"We need consider only the many ways in which we encounter the word
'marriage' in our daily lives and understand it, consciously or no, to
convey a sense of significance. We are regularly given forms to complete
that ask us whether we are "single" or "married." Newspapers run
announcements of births, deaths, and marriages. We are excited to see
someone ask, "Will you marry me?", whether on bended knee in a
restaurant or in text splashed across a stadium Jumbotron. Certainly it
would not have the same effect to see "Will you enter into a registered
domestic partnership with me?". Groucho Marx's one-liner, "Marriage is a
wonderful institution . . . but who wants to live in an institution?"
would lack its punch if the word 'marriage' were replaced with the
alternative phrase. So too with Shakespeare's "A young man married is a
man that's marr'd," Lincoln's "Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it
is simply purgatory," and Sinatra's "A man doesn't know what happiness
is until he's married. By then it's too late." We see tropes like
"marrying for love" versus "marrying for money" played out
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and again in our films and literature because of the recognized
importance and permanence of the marriage relationship. Had Marilyn
Monroe's film been called
How to Register a Domestic Partnership with a Millionaire,
it would not have conveyed the same meaning as did her famous movie,
even though the underlying drama for same-sex couples is no different.
The
name 'marriage' signifies the unique recognition that society gives to harmonious, loyal, enduring, and intimate relationships.
See Knight v. Super. Ct.,
128 Cal. App. 4th 14, 31
(2005) ("[M]arriage is considered a more substantial relationship and
is accorded a greater stature than a domestic partnership.");
cf. Griswold,
381 U.S. at 486 ."
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