I want the same rights—tax wise and bequething soc security—as these idiots.
This is why I see this as a problem of the government's own making. Why does the government grant special benefits to certain groups of people? Shouldn't everyone have the same benefits and burdens of government?
I don't believe that there should be any form of government sanctioned marriage. Such matters should be left strictly in the realm of religion or whatever other non-government institution that consenting adults choose to use to solemnize their unions. Government should have no interest whatsoever in an adult's private living arrangements or relationship status.
“I don’t believe that there should be any form of government sanctioned marriage.”
Ditto.
I don't believe that there should be any form of government sanctioned marriage. Such matters should be left strictly in the realm of religion or whatever other non-government institution that consenting adults choose to use to solemnize their unions. Government should have no interest whatsoever in an adult’s private living arrangements or relationship status.”
EXACTLY!! Thank you.
Absolutely correct!
Governments throughout time have always recognized marriage and recorded them for the purpose of inheritance etc.
What is NOT the governments purview is DEFINING marriage. That is the right of the church. And that is what is wrong with government declaring the right of homosexuals to "marry". Government has no right to redefine marriage.
The government has an interest in promoting people who create children to take responsibility for those children and for children to have both a mom and a dad to bring them up; when that is not promoted, the government ends up supporting more single moms and born-out-of-wedlock children. Heterosexual sex is the only way that children are made.
Homosexual sex produces nothing; the government has no interest in protecting homosexual couples.