I think you have that backwards. What favorable tax and insurance benefits do they get that are not available to homosexuals who happen to be a "couple?"
Let's talk about this for a second. Why is protecting the essence of family life important in our country?
Keyes:
" --- If we embrace homosexuality as a proper basis for marriage, we are saying that it is possible to have a marriage state that in principle excludes procreation and is based simply on the premise of selfish hedonism. This is unacceptable."
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This 'hedonism' position may be 'unacceptable' to Keyes, and to other members of the Republican Party, but it is certainly not well thought out on a Constitutional basis.
The only Constitutional basis for government regulation of marriage is in the enforcing of civil law, -- in the protection of individual rights.
The morality of who is contracted in marriage to whom is simply none of the States business.
-- Unless the rights of one or more of the parties involved -- [& in particular, - children] are being violated, governments have no legal basis to interfere in civil contracts of marriage.
This issue is a tempest in a teapot simply because government has given favorable tax & insurance benefits to 'traditional' married couples. The solution is equally simple. End the favoritism.
Find other ways to promote family values.
Cam:
I think you have that backwards. What favorable tax and insurance benefits do they get that are not available to homosexuals who happen to be a "couple?"
Ask them.. I don't pay to much attention to the details of what the queers rant on about.
Nor do I pay much attention to the details of the proposed "Marriage Amendment"..
The whole concept is a Constitutional joke. -- A political idiocy that will backfire on the Republican Party.