RE: It is the so called adults that worry me.
Here’s my point — kid or adult, you can never know what goes on in a person’s mind because He or She can always use his gender and feeling to PRETEND.
For instance, we have laws here in the USA that gives special privileges to foreign spouses of citizens so that they can be LEGAL RESIDENTS ( call that fast track to citizenship ).
So, if an American who marries say a Mexican, the Mexican spouse quickly bypasses most of the immigration line and soon becomes a LEGAL resident.
Now let’s talk about pretense. Let’s talk about a scenario where gay marriage is now legal in the US ( as Obama wants it to be ).
What if a Mexican is NOT GAY, but wishes to come to the USA, and has an American buddy here in the US who, in order to help him, agrees to PRETEND to be gay and they both “marry” in order for the Mexican to be fast tracked into the US? Why can’t that be the possible?
They can “marry”, live together, and (by agreement) continue to date other women.
When the Mexican finally gets his legal papers, they can “divorce” and lo and behold, the “gay” Mexican is now a LEGAL US resident with a quick path to citizenship !!!
That is my point.
It is tedium unworthy of consideration.
Certainly unworthy of consideration if it erodes the wider society by being considered.
That is a brilliant point. Even I with my equally brilliant mind had not thought of that angle! I must be getting old haha.
No “what ifs”. This has been happening for years. I was propositioned by a friend of mine to marry his sister. The going rate was $5K to “marry” an immigrant. The USCIS has changed the rules on marriage because of this. Now you have to be married two years before they grant the permanent green card.