Assemblywoman Jackson s bill denigrates the entire process of entering into a marriage. Marriage is not about legality and fully understanding rights and responsibilities. Two people do not enter into a marriage because they think it to be a wise legal procedure, but rather to demonstrate their commitment to one another. The entire issue of marriage is so important that there are those in this country who are fighting to extend who can be married in the state of California. My answer to those people is that marriage is not something in which the government should involve themselves.
Marriage is like deciding to have a child, it is something that is unbelievably private.
Marriage is a private, family event and one should not make a decision as to whether or not to marry based on the legal consequences, but should be based on their feelings for the other person. Families in this country have begun to fall apart. Having children is no longer something two people do because they want to take part in molding another, better generation of people, but rather is something that occurs as a result of two people who spent a night trying to make themselves feel loved like they never were. Marriages are about remedying mistakes and convenience rather than showing their devotion until their last breath. In this country, we have begun to reduce the value that families have and will continue to have.