Why can’t brothers marry? Or sisters. No incest here. Children aren’t possible from any possible sexual practice. Fathers/sons. Mothers/daughters. Why not? Why would the gay community be upset with this? Why have incest laws anyway? Don’t we have abortions and pills? Remember not to look back as you leave the city. You might be turned to salt.
CC
My argument is that, if government has a compelling interest in encouraging people to live together, then any two people who choose to live in the same house should get the same tax breaks.
We know that the reason for government to recognize marriage was always that there could be children and those children needed to have two parents so the state didn’t have to care for them.
But since the courts have said that idea is stupid, then the only other reason for the state to give tax breaks must be because the government wants to encourage people to share living expenses. It can’t be for love, since government has no business giving special treatment to people just because they are in love, and that would violate the 14th amendment because a person can’t control being in love, nor can people just marry anybody they are in love with, that other person has to love them or at least tolerate them.
And frankly, I bet a brother and a sister who decide to share a house after the sister becomes a single mother would probably be a better environment for that child than a homosexual couple.
Anyway, in a couple of years polygamy should be legal, and that should really open the floodgates of the tax code. Because I could marry some woman who had married my son, and that way could pass all my inheritance on without having to marry my own child directly.