[Lurker]

How consenting adults choose to order their private lives is none of the States business. None whatsoever.

[mrsmith]

Just what has changed in the nature of mankind, in the last 5,000 years, to make you think that?
Heck, a third of Hammurabi’s Code is devoted to matters of relationships.

[Fee]

The world has accepted polygamy more then sodomy. If the US makes sodomy legal then it has no grounds to say no to polygamy. If Americans are smart men should have more then one wife. Think of the combined incomes and exemptions. Our tax laws are not geared for polygamy. Do the math. If a man has one wife and two kids making 250 000 annually vs a man who has five wives and ten kids making 500 000 annually. I think the guy with five wives and ten kids make out tax wise. Another point is if man and wife both work can barely afford two kids, will a man and five wives working do better? I think financially yes. Big gov will not be able to collect much taxes from a man with five wives and ten kids (fifteen exemptions plus self) compared to a man with one wife and two kids (three exemptions plus self). There is only one catch to this arrangement - old Chinese saying, two women under roof can mean trouble.

[ansel12]

This isn’t about privacy, it is about marriage law.

Yours is one of those new, stylish, lefty trends, when was America free of marriage law?

[centurion316]

How consenting adults choose to order their private lives is none of the States business. None whatsoever.

Does that also mean that married couples could no longer file a joint return. What about the rule protecting a spouse from testifying against the other in court? Do the courts have any say about custody and visitation in divorce cases? Is state sanctioned divorce even possible? How does division of property get adjudicated? If we are just cohabitating, then how can there be any common property?

[Standing Wolf]

How consenting adults choose to order their private lives is none of the States business. None whatsoever.

That's way too much individual freedom for millions of people.

[tophat9000]

Your statement is illogical .....if government stayed out of peoples lives..then the government need do nothing but stay mute on marriage and let it be the religious vow of its origin.........government would see no difference in people being married or not married...and surely have no concept of consuming a marriage..ie having sex, to decide if a marriage can be annulled vs a divorced........ but its called a marriage “license”..its the government providing something special if you do something the government wants..it promotes it provides for..its a so called “positive” right...

[SoConPubbie]

How consenting adults choose to order their private lives is none of the States business. None whatsoever.

When it ceases to be a private matter between consenting adults, and instead is an effort to force people to shut-up telling the truth about the disgusting, perverted, immoral, and sinful lifestyle of Homosexuality, then I beg to differ, maybe it is time to go back to outlawing behavior.

Forcing business owners to serve perverts (Gays), or making it a law that you cannot discriminate against someone because of their CHOSEN sexual lifestyle forces this whole question into another realm.

[usconservative]

How consenting adults choose to order their private lives is none of the States business. None whatsoever.

Until their 17 children require food stamps to feed and other "state benefits" at taxpayer expense.

Their "rights" stop when they infringe on MY right to NOT have my paycheck stolen by the state to care for THEIR kids.

That's just one example.