What would same sex marriages contribute to society?

Question

Heterosexual marriages sustain/increase the population through their reproductive capabilities. There are tax laws supporting this practise. What is the reason that gay/lesbian couples want to have their marriage recognized by the government? Is it so that they can take advantage of the benefits offered to heterosexual couples who get married and have children?

Answer 1

Marriage is defined as "The legal union of a man and woman as husband and wife"

Furthermore, governments have taken a religious ceremony and has created a legal union for the governments to obtain certain rights for those people involved due to peoples inability to continue in these relationships. Disagreements made it necessary for governments to become involved in disillusionment of marriages, as real property was in dispute.

In today's society people have taken a religious ceremony and made it into a legal act.

So, to answer your question, there would be no benefit to society, only a drain on the resources allowed to married men and women and giving them the same benefits allowed hetrosexual married couples from government institutions, as well as private institutions (insurance, medical, etc.). That is what same sex couples want. It makes no sense to have a religious ceremony to validate their sexual preference.

Answer 2

That's exactly it.

Homosexual couples have the potential to contribute just as much to society as heterosexual couples do. They could adopt orphans, more than one or two, just like an infertile couple, instead of having seven or eight of their own. The foster care system in the U.S. is incredibly over-crowded. Thus, they could help sustain the population and LOWER the increase; increasing actually isn't a good thing at the rate that we're going. We are increasing to the point where, if a plague or some huge disaster doesn't wipe out a couple billion of us, the earth will no longer be able to support the human population when it comes to food without turning into a desert very quickly due to over-using the soil. And as I see no attempts to colonize the moon or Mars, that could be a very bad thing. Homosexual couples lessen the risk of that considerably.

Answer 3

It would serve the same purpose as heterosexual marriage.

The commitment of two people to a common goal is a stable unit. Right now, we are denying that stability to a pretty sizable minority of the population, thousands of people in this country alone. And, yes, reproduction would also be a part of homosexual marriage, through things like adoption and in vitro fertilization. Why do you think that gay individuals can't have children?

The purpose of marriage, however, is not just reproduction. There are plenty of heterosexual married couples who do not have children, either because they do not want them or they are not able to. Are their marriages also invalid?

Society benefits from long-term, stable couples. Married folks tend to settle down into careers and make large purchases, such as houses. They provide a stable homelife for raising children. There are also more ephemeral things involved, such as love and commitment. Homosexual couples are as loving and commited as heterosexual couples.

And why shouldn't homosexual couples have the same access to the benefits that heterosexual couples have? This goes far beyond some tax breaks. It includes adoption rights, inheritance rights, the ability to visit a partner in the hospital when he/she is sick, health insurance. We are clearly discriminating against homosexuals on the basis of their sexuality when we offer these things to heterosexual couples, but not to homosexual couples.

Answer 4

People who are so committed to religion that they would stop gay marriage because of it should really go the whole way and become priests or nuns or some equivalent.

Love is beautiful gay or str8 and it benefits society to support love rather than to hinder it.
Same sex marriage means you can visit as next of kin when your partner is sick or dying in hospital, presently you can be refused access to see them if blood family want to stop you, some really are that mean....
It means you can form a committed relationship and buy a home together, and if one of you dies you won't lose your home because of the exorbitant inheritance tax that is presently levied on unmarried couples.
It means that if your partner dies his blood relatives (if they are lousey ones) won't come in and claim his belongings or his share of the estate or bar you from your partners funeral.
It means if you can provide for your partner and if you die your partner will benefit from your pension instead of it reverting to the Gov't or blood relatives.
It means for many Gay couples who have children that they have a more secure family.
That's a few reasons but it's not an exhaustive list, there are plenty more good reasons and apart from reproduction most are the same reasons straight couples want to marry. Love is not a minor issue.

Answer 5

What kind of question is that? Why would you think there is some other under lying reason other than the fact they love each other and just want to be together. Because you know heterosexual married couples are capable of doing the same things if you can believe that!

Answer 6

We are desensitizing our children who are the next leaders in this world. More and more violence, sexual content, ,morality is pushed farther and farther away. we are teaching our children that "anything goes" that all is acceptable.We must have boundaries there must be a line between what is right and what it wrong. same sex marriage is against nature, it is an insult to God. It is a slap in the face to the creator, since when, do we know more than God, since when do we have the right to change the laws of nature in itself. It sadness me deeply for the direction society is taking. This does not even begin to touch the detrimental impact on our economy,there is so much wrong with this! what will our future hold?

Answer 7

Homosexual couples deserve the same rights to medical/dental spousal benefits as heterosexual couples already have. They work too and they pay their portion of it of the benefits So if they are paying for their medical, dental, life insurance shouldn't their spouse get the same rights.. A deeply committed loving relationship is just that - regardless of gender.

As for procreation - not all heterosexual couples can or want to procreate. Marriage is not qualification for that. You absolutely don't have to be married to have a child.

Answer 8

I don't know where I stand on "gay marriage" and all that, but one benefit I think would be the no pro-creating going on and the possibility of a rise in adoption because there are a lot of kids out there who need good homes, with loving parents.

Answer 9

That's part of it certainly, but there's more to it.

If you really want to understand, try this. Imagine that hetero relationships are frowned on and that you cannot legally marry and announce officially and formally to the world that you love each other. How would that make you feel? That's another reason.

Any marriage can produce children. My hetero marriage hasn't and never will. Perhaps my marriage should be banned?

Answer 10

Homosexual marriage is an oxymoron.

They're just trying to stir up an issue by trying to change all the laws we've always had. Animals can't marry either, maybe we should let them so we can get tax breaks for them.

Jftr, marriage is not solely to reproduce. It has to do with the preservation of an orderly society of civilised human beings.

Answer 11

What is the reason straight people want to be married? Because they love eachother and want to be committed to them! If marriage is only for having babies then we shouldn't let anyone who can't have kids or don't want kids get married! Besides gay people can have kids too! I'm sure they will pay the same taxes as straight people! God will you please get a life!