one said he was happy beyond relief.....
Posted on 05/21/2015 9:57:08 AM PDT by mbarker12474
Adopted 'Father' and 'Son' to Marry Pennsylvania couple Bill Novak and Norman MacArthur are legally adopted father and son, but soon they will marry. The couple of more than 50 years registered as domestic partners in 1994, but were told after moving from New York City to Pennsylvania that “hell would freeze over before Pennsylvania approves same sex marriage.” Since they needed to do estate planning, a lawyer advised them that the only way to become legally related was through adoption. This year, however, a federal district court declared the state’s same-sex marriage ban unconstitutional, so the couple petitioned to vacate their adoption decree and now may legally marry. “We are ecstatic beyond relief,” MacArthur said. “I feel an enormous sense of not only relief but freedom that we can finally do something in Pennsylvania that I’ve been dreaming of for years.”
1. Adoption as a means to gain legal rights, licensing rights, and contract rights which are identical to or nearly identical to those of licensed, contractual marriage. Noteworthy.
2. One can adopt multiple 'children'. Irrelevant?
3. Once Pennsylvania was forced to accept gay marriage, the adoption tactic became moot.
4. Adoption is a running theme in the New Testament. I'm not sure where to go with this, but it adds another layer of consideration in the whole Bible vs Homosexuality discussion.
5. Does this adoption angle into homosexual marriage lead anywhere?
So when the “son” inherits the estate, does he have to pay taxes?
No more than any other gay marriage. The headline is sensational. They were never "father" and "son" in any sort of familial relationship whatsoever. They were sticking it to the taxman, that's all.
I honestly don’t care. They love each other..mazel tov. But why can’t they settle the inheritance stuff through legal means? What do you gain from marriage that you can’t just legally do in a contract as a beneficiary?
It was only a matter of time.
Next - pet dogs, sheep and horses.
Well, my mama told me many times that it takes al kinds to make a world. However, there are some “kinds” that I’m happier not knowing about.
Could be a good ploy for the “surviving spouse” for Social Security or a pension that cannot be inherited by a child.
Without a so called “marriage” they cannot stick it tot the church and everyone else who says that what they are doing is gross and unnatural (and abominable)
gay marriage was never about being married. The faggots don’t care whether they are married to whatever they are sticking themselves into. It was always about destroying normal society.
The estate planning straw argument is what annoys me: anybody can put anybody else in his/her will, NOTHING prevented these people from executing wills, powers of attorney or anything else required for estate planning.
America 2015: Pervert nation.
The country really requires a new flag. Ditch the stars-and-stripes and just put a depiction of a big ‘ole anus on a white sheet. The latter would also handily reflect our new culture of “special snowflake” spinelessness.
And here I thought it was the end of bizarre, crazy depraved stories regarding gays and matrimony. Never underestimate the capacity of the human psyche, imagination to conjure up ways to shock and horrify. Okay, you're probably thinking this is the last of it, but I guarantee you that there's some new not yet thought of ways in the marriage of freaks.
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anybody can put anybody else in his/her will, NOTHING prevented these people from executing wills, powers of attorney or anything else required for estate planning.
only a surviving spouse can inherit an estate in Pennsylvania without paying a significant tax bite...thus, same sex ‘marriage’...
I just don’t know anymore.
Read the story and not the BS headline.
The estate planning straw argument is what annoys me:
It was the hospitals that started this entire mess. If they just let friends into see their friends, we would not be in this mess. Hospitals being picky about who could see someone was a dumb move and ruined our country.
There are many familial relationships you can replicate in a will or contractually. But, not all of them.
There are others, but I think you see my point. It's not a "straw argument" at all.
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