As this blog’s climactic “Month of
Time Travel” (before turning to future business elsewhere) nears its end, I tip
my hat to that
century-spanning Bacardi ad that notes the family business surviving both Prohibition
and exile from Cuba -- take that,
statists of two nations!
In other news that scrambles the
usual right-vs.-left rigamarole (h/t Lap Gong Leong), an Oklahoma state
legislator, likely as a prank but constructively nonetheless, has proposed that
if the state can’t agree on whether marriage is male/female or (as the feds
claim) either-gender/either-gender, Oklahoma
should just stop legally recognizing the institution of marriage altogether.
This is basically the correct
libertarian conclusion -- let fully private contracts (not to mention informal
but potentially quite hardcore-traditionalist religious ceremonies) replace the
unnecessary state-approved-marriage body of law. Then individuals can have whatever
traditionalism or innovation in marriage contracts they like without the whole
polity having to argue about the one best
way.
There’s rarely one best way.
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