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CMV: The government should stop recognizing ALL marriages.

I really see no benefits in governmen recognition of marriages. 

First, the benefits: no more fights about what marriage is. If you want to get married by your church - you still can. If you want to marry your homosexual partner in a civil ceremony - you can. Government does not care. Instant equality.

Second, this would cut down on bureaucracy. No marriage - no messy divorces. Instant efficiency.

Now to address some anticipated counter points:

The inheritance/hospital visitation issues can be handled though contracts (government can even make it much easier to get/sign those forms.) If you could take time to sign up for the marriage licence, you can just as easily sign some contract papers.

As for the tax benefits: why should married people get tax deductions?  Sounds pretty unfair to me. If we, as a society want to encourage child rearing - we can do so directly by giving tax breaks to people who have and rare children, not indirectly through marriage.

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> The inheritance/hospital visitation issues can be handled though contracts (government can even make it much easier to get/sign those forms.) If you could take time to sign up for the marriage licence, you can just as easily sign some contract papers.

That's what marriage *is*. It's a kind of contract that include a bunch of specific rights. Giving people those rights is still marriage, whether you call it that by name or not. It's like saying "We're not going to give out sandwiches anymore. Instead, we will be serving meat, vegetables and condiments between two slices of bread". It's the same thing. 

You're just saying we should change the name, but there's really no benefit. Marriage has been a legal institution as long if not longer than it's been a religious ones. Why should the state arbitrarily decide to start calling marriage something else?

> Second, this would cut down on bureaucracy. No marriage - no messy divorces. Instant efficiency.

If you're going on to keep civil unions, you're going to also have to deal with the dissolution of those unions. No efficiency gain here.