[freedumb2003]

If it for love then who am I to say otherwise.

You damn fool. This is not about two people who love each other. This is about the fabric of our society.

Marriage as recognized by the state is to support the now thousands-year-old concept that the nuclear family -- 1 mother, 1 father and children -- is the best way to raise children into well-adjusted adults. The state has a compelling interest to promote this for the good of the entire country. Even if some people don't have kids and other divorce too quickly, the underlying principle still represents everyone's best interests. If Marriage is merely a legal contract that can be redefined at a whim, thus cutting the cord to the underlying interest then it has no meaning at all!!!

Once you remove the basis, then it doesn't matter who gets "married" or why. If "love" is the basis, then every aspect of marriage is up for grabs. If gender is arbitrary, so is number, familial relationship, species, etc.

You might as well get rid of any laws related to marriage, since they have no meaning anymore -- it is all open for debate. No more tax benefits, no more estate planning (except perhas for progeny). The fabric upon which we BUILT this society is torn asunder. I shudder to think what the next generation will face -- no commitment, kids who are born into groups who may or may not care for them, artificial insemination to create kids for father-father-father-grandmother "marriages."

God help you all.

[commonerX]

""You damn fool. This is not about two people who love each other. This is about the fabric of our society.""

It is about two people who love each other. I didn't marry my wife to support the fabric of society.

Calling someone a damn fool doesn't support your point either.

"""Once you remove the basis, then it doesn't matter who gets "married" or why. If "love" is the basis, then every aspect of marriage is up for grabs. If gender is arbitrary, so is number, familial relationship, species, etc."""


People like you always try to stretch what people are saying
Marrieage is between two people that love each other. Marriage between family members is wrong not because of religious or even in some cases a moral ones. It is wrong, do to genetics and inbreeding problems that could develope. If an adopted man meets a girl and falls in love and gets married, and it is found out later that she is his sister, was he morally wrong for marrying her.

And the reference to species is absurd.


"""No more tax benefits, no more estate planning (except perhas for progeny)."""


You have poor reasons for getting married.

I got married for love. Tax benefits and estate planning was never a factor or a concideration.