State of Michigan Incredibly Claims It Has The Right To ‘Regulate Sexual Relationships’

[Drale]

On September 9, 2013 Attorneys for the state of Michigan filed paperwork in District Court asserting the state’s right to “regulate sexual relationships.” The court filing is in response to a civil action filed earlier this by Plaintiff Deboer. Deboer filed a suit against the state’s unconstitutional same sex marriage ban, which denies same sex couples the right to marry or to adopt children. In the state’s response, filed on behalf of Governor Rick Snyder, the Michigan attorney general claims:

“One of the paramount purposes of marriage in Michigan — and at least 37 other states that define marriage as a union between a man and a woman — is, and has always been, to regulate sexual relationships between men and women so that the unique procreative capacity of such relationships benefits rather than harms society.”

Far from being a casual statement made off the cuff, this is a statement that has been carefully crafted by the state’s attorneys, and undoubtedly reflects the position held by Snyder administration.

The state not only claims the authority to regulate sexual relationships, but states that regulating sexual relationships is the paramount purpose of marriage in Michigan.

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/09/18/michigan-claims-right-regulate-sexual-relationships/

Michigan is probably the most fucked up state in the Union right now. Florida and Texas are bad but Michigan.....just....

[jberryhill]

1. I thought they had to be in a "militia" for that

[Nuclear Unicorn]

4. I see you subscibe to the originalist interpretation of

The 69th Amendment.

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. That is moronic on so many levels.

by his defintion, no one should get married, thus they can avoid being regualted.

By his definition, no one should be allowed to get married who cannot "procreate"

I am still trying to figure out how non-married sex "harms society".....

[LuvNewcastle]

3. Unmarried sex is sexual terrorism! Look out for exploding genitals!

[Nuclear Unicorn]

5. Those are just fireworks.

[brooklynite]

6. Let's accept that the argument is true...

...in which case, by declining to assert the right to regulate other non-procreative sexual activities (sales of contraceptives, marriages of persons without reproductive capacity) the State has indicated that it has no concern with a non-procreative relationship between gays and lesbians.