Two straight Canadian men to marry each other

[andrewducker]

There's an article here about two straight men who have noticed that there's a significant tax break for married couples - and are planning to take advantage of it.

Which, I think, just goes to show, that if you allow people to do things for one reason, they'll do it for their own reasons too.  Or as William Gibson once said "The Street finds its own uses for things."

How long, one wonders, until marriage is broken down, and you get to form your own contract using a CC-style choose-your-own-license?

I would like {Insert Name Here} to (a)inherit all my worldly goods (b)have power of attorney (c)love, honour and obey me (delete as applicable)

Comments

[wolflady26.livejournal.com]

I'd personally be in favor of something like that, too. Being able to define who your "family" is for purposes of hospital visits and making decisions when unconscious and the like seems to make a lot of sense to me. It doesn't make any sense that a person's abusive parents/separated-spouse/whatever can visit in a hospital, but best friend/boyfriend/girlfriend/whatever can't.