[Dimensio]

Hypothetical: So what's to prevent me from teaming with a friend, signing a Civil Relationship paper, and getting the benies from the government. Do you have to be a homosexual?? Of course not. That's my private business! The whole thing is a money scam.

What is to prevent you from doing the same thing with a friend of the opposite gender? Does a person need to be a heterosexual in order to get married to a person of the opposite gender? Of course not! That's their private business!

Is opposite-gender marriage therefore a scam?

[longtermmemmory]

its called marriage fraud. There are laws (immigration comes to mind) which prohibit sham marriages for ulterior motives.

this will come "out" for death benefits from "common law" marriages.