Merav michaeli marriage boot

Here is the full transcript of former journalist Merav Michaeli’s TEDx presentation: Cancel Marriage at TEDxJaffa conference.

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TRANSCRIPT: 

Marriage, that holy matrimony, that mystical union that brings us together, to have and to hold, for better, for worse, in sickness and in health, till death do us part.

We must cancel marriage.

Not only religious marriage, marriage is not an issue of religion. Also civil marriage. I want all secular states to totally eliminate all registration and regulation of marriage.

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I want to cancel the very concept of marriage.

While you were clapping, I think you thought I was laughing and in your hearts you were saying to yourselves, &#;Oh my God, who is this crazy person? What does she mean, cancel marriage?&#; &#;Cancel this beautiful covenant of love and romance?&#;

The thing is that love is about love, but marriage is not about love.

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