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For Maggie, I would ask the following:

Let's assume that discrimination by restricting marriage in the past has been closely related to raising children and the function of society imposing roles and duties on those married parents.

It seems to me that the discrimination must be continually justified because society changes. So, now that folks can divorce, people can use birth control, and children out of wedlock is no longer stigmatized, what's the justification right now?

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