A Treatise for the Rights of Same-Sex Marriage

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[i] Missives like these could be seen on trees and posts all around Brabant 

A Treatise on Same-Sex Marriage 

 

Purpose

This document is a thesis on the legal implications of Homophilic Magic. While the author of this document is Canonist and thus follows the decrees of the Church, this document only serves as a secular analysis of Homophilic marriage, concerning legal law and foreign cultures, and most importantly aims to offer suggestions for improvement of current marriage laws and provide a resource for the potential implementation of homophilic marriage laws.

 

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Introduction

The world of Aevos is vast. It contains a vast variety of different lands, climates, and races. From the orcs of the Horde, the High Elves in the jungles Haelun’Or, to the humans of Canondom and the pagans of Celia and Norland. Through cultures, tongues, religions, skins, and history, the differences between and in descendants are very visible. And yet what is just as visible as the differences in culture between us is the fact that all races contain in themselves the most 2 sacred acts, love and marriage. 

 

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General Understanding of Marriage 

To discuss the act of marriage, one must first establish a general understanding of marriage. The act of matrimony is not tied to single or certain descendants, races, cultures, or religions thus one may say, this tradition transcends such paradigms. That being said, in nearly all cultures, marriage does have elements of culture, and religion that exist between those getting married. Some cultures also practice polygamy, though this is far less common throughout the realms.

 

Thus, the common definition of marriage one may use is: “A ritual or ceremony, in which two parties, typically two individuals,  join in a recognised union.”

 

The recognition of a marriage can be done by any relevant authority, the state, the local community, or in the case of Canondom, the church.

 

The Relation of Matrimony to that of Law

Following the Haeseni Book of Honour, marriage is defined is defined as the “the sacred rite of taking a husband or wife to form a family.” While such a definition is certainly within the decrees of Canondom, one may notice that it features the interesting condition of ‘to form a family,’ meaning that unions in which the couple either doesn’t not want or cannot form a family as not able to form a marriage.

 

With the Lex Civilis of Balian, an official definition of Matrimony is not given, though the language indicates its an affair between man and woman. Most interestingly though, it provides a section on Civil Unions, which is “Civil unions shall be defined as the enjoining of non-human individuals who do not follow the Canon into the institution of marriage as recognized by the Kingdom of Balian.” The rest of the language in this article does not mention gender, implying that two male elves may be allowed to enter a recognised civil union in Balian. This is an instance of legal recognition of foreign unions and to some extent homophilic unions.

 

Granted, with the missive of the ‘4 Canonist Princess on marriage’ Balian and other nations have come to vow to allow same-sex unions in their nations, so the current Lex Civilis is not up to date. But it is still useful for this paper’s analysis. 

 

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How this all relates to that of Same-Sex Marriage 

Thus, for the implementation of laws regarding expanding of marriage rights, one may want to include a broad definition of matrimony, so as to allow different parties to marry. This option works best in more secular states, or in non-human countries.

 

Rulers of states with strong religious principles, and with a public desire for homophilic unions, may instead want to implement separate definitions for religiously recognised matrimony, and state-recognised civil union. When it comes to issues of inheritance, such as in the case of noble titles belonging to homophilic couples, one may make the titles non-hereditary, or allow the couple in question to appoint an inheritor. This document will not delve into the theories of such an arrangement.

 

And so finally with everything that has been spoken and declared, I can finally propose this argument for the right of marriage between couples of the same-sex. Although in Brabant, we are a canonist land and so respect the laws of Canon, we still have within ourselves our Scroll of Law upon which the state and government builds upon as its framework. And so, I propose this our government recognize same-sex couples and same-sex marriage as it would the marriages of any other citizen in Brabant as currently the Scroll of Law define marriage as between two peoples with no specific on sex or race. Furthermore, I believe that since homophilic marriages would exist outside the church of Canon as the church deems such to be against the beliefs of our holy scrolls that such marriages be recognized as outside of the Church of Canon, but the government should recognize the right of marriage and extend that to same-sex couples to marry and to also form civil unions. 

 

Civil-unions can also be used to recognise the matrimony of foreign races living in one's own land and the rights of its citizens to marry who they wish to choose due to the law in its current state. land, or the union of different religions.

 

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Closing words

While this document doesn’t comment on the religious principles or morality of homophilic unions, the author of this paper would like to thank the wisdom of the Holy Mother Church, in respecting states that form laws to implement civil unions, that do not infringe on the holy rites of Canondom. And so I, your anonymous author, came to a close on this paper.

Spoiler

Links to my Sources:
https://www.lordofthecraft.net/forums/topic/208100-ve-haurul-caezk-the-book-of-honour/

 

https://www.lordofthecraft.net/forums/topic/224883-the-royal-codex-of-the-kingdom-of-balian-volume-ii-lex-civilis/

 

https://www.lordofthecraft.net/forums/topic/234458-four-canonist-princes-on-marriage/

 

https://www.lordofthecraft.net/forums/topic/235072-quintum-aurea-bulla-apostolicus/

 

[_RoyalCrafter_ 3297]

The Duke of Brabant would pick up the authorless missive and pondered. "Our laws are too broad, we must clarify things to ensure people's rights to a union is met, while distinguishing properly from the Canonist rites. Perhaps I'll ask our priest on how to best handle the situation."