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I see no reason why thoroughly heterosexual, single dudes shouldn’t exploit the benefits assigned to ‘married’ homosexuals.

Get the damn govt out of marriage.

Yep, government can screw anything up. I bet many decades back some do gooder types decided that government must get involved in marriage, you know to make sure us the unwashed did it right. They decided we needed those government marriage certificates so husband and wife could be proud that they met the government's standard. A priest, rabbi, or reverend (no they did not meet in a bar somewhere) saying you can kiss the bride just wasn't good enough. You needed more importantly, the thumbs up by some pasty face bureaucrat down at city hall. I would not be bold in speculating that the do gooders were church going folk back hundred years or so. They wanted government to get involved to make sure us sinners stayed on the straight and narrow. They thought the church just wasn't enough to keep us moral, so they got the government involved. Well hundred years later the law of unintended consequences has come down hard and led us to this current mess. And guess what, we will do it again with something else. That is get the government involved in people's personal lives, and pay the penalty for some monstrosity decades later.

I can’t wait for someone to do this, and the government comes to make them “prove” they are really married, except the laws about proving marriage involve sexual intercourse, which of course no gay or lesbian couple can engage in.