Marriage privatization their partnership; they would have a private marriage ceremony if they so chose in order to honor their private religious or philosophical concept of marriage. In a July 2008 article appearing in "The Monist" titled "Privatizing Marriage" Harvard Law Professor Cass Sunstein and University of Chicago economist Richard H. Thaler offer arguments for the privatization of marriage. Thaler and Sunstein also take up the topic in their co-authored 2008 book "Nudge: Improving Decisions about Wealth, Health, and Happiness." Sunstein and Thaler argue for marriage privatization among other positions under the heading of what they call "Libertarian Paternalism". Opposition to marriage
Cass Sunstein counsels thinkers/academics/politicians to embrace the findings of behavioral economics as applied to law, maintaining freedom of choice while also steering people's decisions in directions that will make their lives go better. With Thaler, he coined the term "choice architect." In 2002, at the height of controversy over Bush's creation of military commissions without Congressional approval, Sunstein stepped forward to insist, "Under existing law, President George W. Bush has the legal authority to use military commissions" and that "President Bush's choice stands on firm legal ground." Sunstein scorned as "ludicrous" an argument from law professor George P. Fletcher, who believed that