In July, the Supreme Court of Sweden ruled in a landmark case that a relationship doesn’t have to involve sex to be considered significant. In a case involving an asexual couple in which one of the two parties is deceased, the court emphasized that a relationship should be characterized by a close community in personal terms that normally occurs between married people and that sex doesn’t have to be involved for that to happen. It was a significant win for asexual people in Sweden.
However, in America, a darker reality exists for asexuals even on this Ace Week, as religious nationalist groups are actively trying to block the Respect for Marriage Act from passing in the Senate. Not only is the religious right seeking to ban gay marriage once again, but they have also signaled a future attack against asexual marriages.
As obtained by Politico, some 83 Christian nationalist groups (led by the Alliance Defending Freedom) released a letter in July imploring Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) to block the Respect for Marriage Act, because marriage equality somehow opens the door to further immorality, like platonic marriages.
The Witherspoon Institute, a right-wing think tank founded by Robert P. George (who founded the anti-LGBTQ hate group American Principles Project), came out with an op-ed entitled “Why We Should Push Back against Platonic Marriage.” The editorial’s author, Alan J. Hawkins, laments the idea of asexual marriages existing because he feels allowing asexual marriages will lead to a “marriage inferno.”
the right-wing is actively working to legitimize any marriage that doesn’t result in reproduction.
Which further enforces the sexual subjugation of women if marriages have an obligatory expectation to reproduce.
Yes but y’all are missing what this is really for; to make marriage only between two adults who can reproduce. Meaning no marriage if you’re disabled, queer, or unable to have kids.
I admit to making a typo here
“ the right-wing is actively working to legitimize any marriage that doesn’t result in reproduction. “
but
“to make marriage only between two adults who can reproduce “
and
“delegitimize any marriage that doesn’t result in reproduction. “
are not dissimilar sentences. and people are discussing how this applies to various disability condition, queer couples and people who are childless through choice or otherwise.
we aren’t “missing what this is really for
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