#Civil Union

A civil union is the state’s ceremonial handshake of approval to lovers, shorn of divine blessing yet wrapped in bureaucracy. It binds affection with paperwork, turning intimacy into a contractual labyrinth. With a signature, respect and surveillance are bestowed in equal measure, in the modern world’s love contract. Told that rights and duties balance on a knife’s edge, one might believe in love’s fairness—but in truth it’s little more than a bureaucrat’s pastime.