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To: Jim Noble
"Why can’t two non-gay brothers marry, for that matter - as a tax strategy, for example."

I'm pretty sure the Supreme Court didn't rule that same sex couples need to have sex with each other in order to receive the legal benefits of marriage.

21 posted on 10/23/2015 9:06:18 PM PDT by Sooth2222 ("In a democracy, the people get the government they deserve." - Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859))
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To: Sooth2222
I'm pretty sure the Supreme Court didn't rule that same sex couples need to have sex with each other in order to receive the legal benefits of marriage.

Good point. This is just all part of the current scenario of so few people knowing what the definition of true marriage actually is….even before throwing homo marriages into the mix. Once upon a time, there was no problem getting an annulment as long as it was confirmed that there was ‘marital fraud, abandonment, infidelity (sexual withholding as opposed to sex outside the marriage), non-consummation, a refusal of natural obligations’ etc. etc. Once the concept of marriage and the sexual act have nothing to do with each other, the whole thing falls apart. In countries such as Canada where homo marriages have been legal for some time, they have tried to avoid the issue of ‘grandparents marrying sons and daughters to avoid the death tax’ by stipulating that the two parties can’t be genetically related…. but like anything else, this just opens up a whole new can of worms.

31 posted on 10/23/2015 10:03:36 PM PDT by hecticskeptic (In life it's important to know what you believeÂ….but more more importantly, why you believe it.)
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