Well, yes, clearly:
If the Commission’s advice is adopted, it will no
longer be possible for a man and a woman to decide to live together on
completely private terms which involve no licence, or interference from
the state.
The option of a completely free (but
enduring) association between two adults which deliberately abjures any
of the trappings or encumbrances of marriage will now effectively cease
to exist.
In order to enter into such an
arrangement, a couple would, paradoxically, have to sign a legally
officiated contract – a form of pre-nuptial agreement without the
nuptials – thereby submitting themselves and their relationship to
precisely the sort of legal scrutiny which they had presumably hoped to
avoid.
That is the point, of course. Really, who could be so naive as to think otherwise? Obviously you have to have permission from the State to have regular sex with another person. What do you think the place would be like if people just did what they wanted, willy nilly, without the oversight of a benign bureaucracy?
What do you think this is, a free country or something?
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