More important,the concept of domestic partnership chips away at the prestige of traditionalrelationships and undermines the priority we give them. This priority is notnecessarily a product of heterosexism. Consider heterosexual couples. Societyhas good reason to extend legal advantages to heterosexuals who choose theformal sanction of marriage over simplyliving together. They make a deeper commitment to one another and to society;in exchange, society extends certain benefits to them. Marriage provides ananchor, if an arbitrary and weak one, in the chaos of sex and relationships towhich we are all prone. It provides a mechanism for emotional stability,economic security, and the healthy rearing of the next generation. So the lawis made in its favor not because we criticize all forms of relationship otherthan the nuclear family, but because we recognize that not to promote marriagewould be to ask too much of human virtue. In the context of the weakenedfamily's effect upon the poor, it might also invite social disintegration. Oneof the worst products of the New Right's "family values" campaign isthat its extremism and hatred of diversity has disguised this more measured andmore convincing case for the importance of the marital bond.
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