Thanx ... good lessen
I know a gay guy who is an executive with a company. His take on benefits is that if the couple is legally married, then okay. But if they’re just living together, then no.
Two issues appear to arise.
1) Monogamy vs multiple marriage relationships.
2) Palimony.
Give them what they want and since they have 1000s of relationships vs heterosexual marital monogamy, let their former pals sue each other for palimony.
From just plain common sense (secular), and the prohibition of male homosexuality in Torah (sacred), the issue is settled for me. It won’t change.
If somebody claims that they’re gay, how do you prove that? Do you go to your doctor and get a note? Do you have to take pictures of you involved sexual acts?
Think how hard they dig with marriages between U.S citizen and a citizen from another country.
Now think how little they’ll dig on same sex mariages. There is going to be a lot of same sex marriages that are in reality, scams for benefits, citizenship or similar.
In Malachi it says, “The Lord God hates divorce. And why? Because he was seeking Godly offspring.” The purpose of marriage is raising children. All other reasons aside, marriage provides a contract consistent with child rearing.
The reason why, as a society, we decided on benefits for spouses and children is to further child rearing. Take that out of the equation and benefits don’t make economic sense.
Add in gov’t manipulation like being Uncle Daddy and manipulating the benefits markets and the result will be, inside a generation, that if any employee benefits are given at all, they’ll be just for the employee.
Providing same sex benefits make no economic sense and it doesnt fill a pressing social imperative.