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Saw this just before I left, so here's a very quick reply.

What about age limits? What about family history tests for consanguinity? How about blood tests for diseases that could endanger a fetus? Certainly there is state approval.

Age limits have to do with the issue of consent, not with the form of the marriage. Consanguinity is too complicated to dispose of in a single post; suffice it to say that it's not (only) a matter or moral approval or disapproval of one's choice of spouse (or the gender thereof). Neither is disease control.

To be clear here, when I say there's no issue of approval involved, I mean that the decision of two people to get married does not involve any securing of societal approval for their personal choice of spouse or mate or of any behavior within their marriage than can properly be characterized as strictly private.

And now I really am gone. So long and thanks for the chat.

Since we're talking about financial impact to the state, it's important to ask why the state originally granted marriage privileges. It was never about mere cohabitation. It was never about mere desire to be together.

We still have to answer the question: what's now in it for the state if it was never considered a rewarding investment until now? The answer from most Americans is "nothing." We don't want it, we don't agree with it, we think it's a danger to the morals of our children, and we really don't want to pay taxes to support it. At least you have to recognize that to many Americans, supporting same sex unions and marriage would be taxation without representation.

What do you want Christian and other ethically opposed parents to tell their children when their mothers can't be home because they're serving on a jury for a contested divorce case involving a same sex couple? Are we going to teach the new definition of marriage, one that had never existed on the face of the earth since time immemorial in public school?

Is this "progress?" I don't think so. What's more, the desperation traditional, Christian families feel when they hear about this kind of thing being taught to their children in schools is, "Let's have Roy Moore for President!" The left is driving the right to distraction. It's critical that people in the moderate center realize that this is not a rights issue, it's not even a human rights issue.

Get them powers of attorney; it's more than enough.