same-sex marriage

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is a danger to straight marriage in that its existence undermines the link between marriage and procreation (by replacing it with the assumption that marriage is merely about a romantic bond between two individuals) which in turn leads to the loosening of the social expectation for straight couples to marry or have children.

Attorneys for the state are warning a federal judge that fewer 'straight' couples will marry and existing marriages will become less stable if he allows gays to wed. In a last-ditch effort to keep Arizona's ban on gay marriage from being voided, the new legal filing claims state recognition of same-sex relationships would send the message that that marriage exist 'primarily for the state to approve romantic bonds' instead of to facilitate 'sexual conduct of the type that creates children.' Lead attorney Byron Babione of the Christian-based Alliance Defending Freedom, allowed by Attorney General Tom Horne to represent the state, said that would convey the message that 'an emotional connection is the defining characteristic of marriage.' 'But if romantic bonds become the ultimate determinant of marriage, no logical grounds would reinforce marriage-stabilizing norms like sexual exclusivity, permanence, and monogamy,' Babione write in legal pleadings to Judge John Sedwick. 'So, as society fails to live in conformity with these norms, marriages on the whole are likely to become more unstable.' Babione also says undermining the link between marriage and procreation means 'the social expectation and pressure to marry for man-woman couples having or raising children would likely decrease further.' 'These developments, over time, would lodge in the public mind the idea that marriage is merely an option.

is, for Buzan, necessarily linked to power politics, and ultimately, it is about 'survival'.

The Copenhagen school defines security in International Relations as different to security in an everyday sense in International Relations, it is necessarily linked to power politics, and ultimately, it is about 'survival' (Buzan et al. 1998: 21).

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