Monday, April 22, 2013

Althouse: What's "fake" about 2 gay couples ? where gay marriage ...

Here's this Daily Beast article titled "China?s Fake Gay Marriages":
In China, where homosexuality was classified as a mental illness until 2001 and a crime until 1997, gays and lesbians still face serious discrimination, [and] where the pressure to get married is strong and starts early, it has long been common for gays to marry straight spouses. Now, some are finding what they consider a better alternative. Known as ?cooperative marriages,? or hunzuo hunyin, gay men and lesbian women are increasingly marrying each other ? often aided by the Internet. (Such marriages are also known as ?fake marriage? [jia jiehun] or ?ritual marriage? [xingshi hunyin].)
This could be a structure for producing children ? children who could then live with both biological parents. Obviously, a male and female can produce a child together, without ever having sex and without medical intervention. In China, this is being done in a way that deceives their family, and sometimes they're doing nothing together but having a wedding. So, depending on what the couple does, it could be fake. But what if, say, a female gay couple and a male gay couple were compatible friends, who pooled their resources to buy a big house and they really wanted to raise their children together responsibly and with both parents in the house. Would it be wrong for the males to marry the females??

Source: http://althouse.blogspot.com/2013/04/whats-fake-about-2-gay-couples-where.html

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