Ok, I am to a point right now that I almost want to say fine let them do whatever they want, but answer me this question.
Since the government should not be involved in marriage issues, such as gay marriage and alot of supporters say the government has no say in who loves whom, can we also say then that the government has no place to implement benefits for marrieds as well? I think it would be hypocritical to say that the government should butt in in one aspect of marriage but not others.
2007-01-20 05:23:47 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Marriage is a religious institution that the governments have taken over and are in the process of destroying. I would like to see the concept of legal marriage eliminated along with all legal benefits the government now gives married people, and have the churches control marriage.
If gays start a homosexual church God will judge them for it...
2007-01-20 07:34:53 · answer #1 · answered by jesuscuresislam 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The government should provide the same benefits for same-sex married couples that they do for heterosexual couples. They currently offer over a thousand benefits for marrieds over singles, but right now only for heterosexual couples of course. Some of them are: late spouse benefits, tax laws, pensions (Social Security and Veteran), survivor benefits, joint parental rights (and many gay couples do have children), property rights, family visitation rights.
Right now, even though gay couples marry legally in Massachusetts, they are not afforded the federal benefits given to those who are married. If a benefit is based on a federal law, they aren't due those benefits. This needs to change. Really, the federal government wants to leave it to the states so they do not have to afford all these rights to gay married people. Also, once the issue becomes federally based it will undoubtably lead to the USSC having to make a ruling on the right for gays to marry, and those against this are very afraid of turning it over to the USSC. They anticipate the court will rule in favor of marriage for gays, so they are willing to do just about anything to head this off. It is the main reason those against gay marriage wish to continue leaving it up to the states.
2007-01-20 05:50:37 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
In Canada, they successfully legalized gay marriages.
However, we are now hearing from sectors of society using the same arguments that the gays did who also want to marry the *one* of their choice, or in some cases, more than one ;-)
2007-01-20 05:53:44 · answer #3 · answered by Angela B 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
How about bann all marriage and just go to invetro development of a better society.
Now that would really help the RedsState initiative.
Go big Red Go
2007-01-20 05:29:06 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
How about banning all taxes.
2007-01-20 05:45:21 · answer #5 · answered by LoneStar 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋