I don’t believe gay people should get married...unless they have to. Seriously, I don’t really care if people of the same sex want to imitate marriage, but they should find their own name for it. Seana Sugrue explains clearly what marriage is. Let the same-sex couples come up with their own term to describe whatever it is they want to call “marriage”. That word is taken, sorry.
Homosexual “marriage can continue to have the possibilities it has always had, contract arrangement. It should not get any tax treatment that is in any different from that of unmarried people. The difference in tax treatment for married couples stems from the utility of actual married families to the smooth running of the state and society the continuation and continuity of the population and the raising up of the new generations in the optimum conditions. For that homosexual households are not useful. If churches choose to “marry” them then fine. Pagans can exist among Christians and Jews but, again there should be no tax preference for them as far as social arrangements. They can even call it marriage, but it should have no tax consequences. Giving homosexuals the tax benefits of marriage is recognizing them as superior citizens and sets them above nonhomosexuals because there is no actual reason for the state to subsidize such arrangements except to transfer wealth from productive couples to nonproductive people. They add nothing to the state. They do not produce children and their very orientation renders them dubious at best in the raising of adopted children.