IRS: homosexuality is a choice, no tax deduction for gays contracting surrogates

LifeSiteNews ^ | 1/21/16 | Father Mark Hodges

[Pollster1]

in vitro fertilization treatments and the cost of a surrogate to carry twin boys for himself and his male partner.

I'm sure there is nothing creepy about that. What could go wrong?

[wagglebee]

There's no indication that either of these sodomites are infertile.

[Pearls Before Swine]

I see the surrogate is carrying twin boys. I wonder if there was any embryo sex selection at work.

[onedoug]

‘US government hates homos. Claims fagdom a choice! News at eleven.’

[ConservativeWarrior]

Next up, single person:

“I am asexual and cannot conceive a child myself. I need a tax break for a surrogate mother”

[Wolfie]

I don’t see a reason for anybody to get a tax deduction for IVF.

[FamiliarFace]

***LGBTQ activists are trying to get a legal ruling that homosexuality is genetic, innate, natural, and not a choice. ***

If a gay gene is ever found, I might agree with them. Not holding my breath though.

[Defiant]

The gays should at least have to prove they’ve been trying to conceive, but haven’t been able to. Maybe their doctor could certify that they are infertile. Then our tax payers can pay for their surrogates.

[Tax-chick]

The issue is simply that the medical payments were not for the care of the taxpayer or his family. Payments for surrogacy would not be allowable if the parents-of-record were a married heterosexual couple.

However, if a woman provided surrogacy services, any medical payments she made herself would be deductible, subject to the general limits on deductibility of medical payments, while any payment she received for the service would be taxable as income.

Perhaps Congress will attempt to enact a deduction for some or all of payments related to surrogacy. If so, they’d have to include all cases to get any backing.

[tacticalogic]

If a gay gene is ever found, I might agree with them. Not holding my breath though.

Not likely, given the number of cases of identical twins where one is gay and the other straight.

[Tax-chick]

What you describe is the situation regarding health insurance in California. The fact that the same-sex couple has not conceived a child after six months of “trying” “proves” they are “infertile.” Then their artificial reproduction interventions must be covered by insurance.

[Defiant]

My sarcasm was misplaced. The government is actually making them prove their infertile.

Just for fun, we should send someone in with a report that they ARE fertile after all. See the reaction on the bureaucrat's face. "Lawd, it's a miracle!"

[Tax-chick]

There are simple medical tests to demonstrate objective male or female fertility, but I’m sure those wouldn’t be allowed.

Sarcasm, satire, and parody are almost useless these days, now that we all live in an open-air insane asylum.

[FamiliarFace]

Oh, believe me, I agree. I don’t think they’ll ever find a gay gene. I think it’s an impossibility. Plus, if a gay gene were ever found, then you would hear the cries about making selective abortions illegal from the LGBT community faster than a NY minute.

[lavaroise]

Well, if you wait for government to hand you rights instead of having a gun to claim them,this is what you get.

[Alberta's Child]

I don’t think you’re going out on a limb there. That sounds like it would have been the subject of Quatrain #1 by Nostradamus. LOL.

[NetAddicted]

You mean the homosexuals are screaming about something that’s not tax deductible for heterosexual couples?

[Tax-chick]

Yes, that’s exactly what I mean. Their claim seems to be that it *should be* deductible, under the same rules as IVF services for a heterosexual married couple (or single woman), because homosexuals cannot “have children” any other way.

As I said, it could be made deductible if Congress amended the Internal Revenue Code.

[gidget7]

Yes, finally! And apparently this so called couple also does, in that they know it is not marriage when two people of the same sex live together. As one of them said “the two men announced their intention to call their relationship a marriage.”

Not that they decided (however fake it may be) to get married, just that they decided to “call their relationship a marriage”

[Zeneta]

I met her in a club down in old Soho

Where you drink champagne and it tastes just like cherry-cola

See-oh-el-aye cola

She walked up to me and she asked me to dance
I asked her her name and in a dark brown voice she said Lola
El-oh-el-aye Lola la-la-la-la Lola

Well I’m not the world’s most physical guy
But when she squeezed me tight she nearly broke my spine
Oh my Lola la-la-la-la Lola

Well I’m not dumb but I can’t understand
Why she walked like a woman and talked like a man
Oh my Lola la-la-la-la Lola la-la-la-la Lola

Well we drank champagne and danced all night
Under electric candlelight

snip

Well I’m not the world’s most masculine man
But I know what I am and I’m glad I’m a man

And so is Lola