IMO, the issue of “gay marriage” should be left to the states. It’s NOT a federal issue and the bloated government of zero needs to get the heck out of it altogether.
Based on previous predictions of how the court would rule after oral arguments, we won’t know anything until CJ Roberts declares that Congress can allow anyone to get married as long as they are taxed accordingly!
So how does the federal government handle the case of allocating benefits for SS and Medicare including spousal and survivor benefits? Or federal pension benefits? Or joint tax returns?
I can see this opening up widespread fraud. There is a lot of money involved in all of this.
Government does have a role to play in defining marriage. We already have laws on what age you should be, polygamy, incest, etc. So where do you draw the line on how much government should "get the heck out of marriage altogether? When a 50 year old man marries a 9 year old boy? Or three people get married? How do we revise our tax and divorce laws to reflect no government involvement?