And lets not forget, plenty of people have legal marriages of convenience for the benefits that being married affords them. No one cares if married people reproduce or if they are happy or if they even live together. All you have to do is sign on the dotted line and voila, state benefits. No need to prove love or even affection. Hell, I could marry the woman I most hate as far as the state is concerned.
So that being said, if I’m allowed those benefits for marrying someone I met once on the Internet and don’t even live with, why is it so important that that someone be of the opposite sex?
It’s totally ludicrous that some of you don’t know the difference between religious marriage and state given benefits for what it calls marriage. They are different and to not recognize the distinction means you are making a religious argument, and ergo, that argument has no bearing in politics. And don’t try to make it about what our collective morality is, because your morality doesn’t condone marriages by people like I have described (i.e. signing papers and never seeing each other again).
Jack
