[BlazingArizona]

Queer marriage will give you both of those, regardless of how you feel about it morally.

It's probably true that welfare and subsidized health care are behind the current liberal enthusiasm for gay marriage. What libertarians want to do, however, is change our legal system to get government totally out of the marriage business. If marriage had no effect on inheritance, tax rates, welfare eligibility, or child custody, there would be no incentive for any pressure group to finagle the system for its own advantage. Marriage would be "owned" by churches, not by governments.

[Beagle8U]

"What libertarians want to do, however, is change our legal system to get government totally out of the marriage business. If marriage had no effect on inheritance, tax rates, welfare eligibility, or child custody, there would be no incentive for any pressure group to finagle the system for its own advantage. Marriage would be "owned" by churches, not by governments."

I see, so everyone buy their own insurance, even wives and children would need to buy a separate health ins. policy.

That would work great./sarc.