Post by LeMod PolPost by T.J. JohnsonPost by LeMod PolI am not gay so how will gay marriages effect me
I am not a pedophile, so how will pedophilac marriage affect me?
Unfortunately you appear to need a brain transplant
1. Higher tax revenues. 2. Higher entitlements. 3. Change of
terminology.
Personally, I think financial dependency requires the government to
extend the same benefits as to other dependents. Non-traditional
families are ignored WRT retirement and other claims frm what I know.
IANAL but if some lady who cares for elderly mother is injured on the
job then I suppose the elderly mother should be treated as a
dependent. The greed argument is that people don't want to pay claims
to spouses. Not allowing gay marriages reduces the number of claims.
Insurance industry is tough.
Tangentially, any time you change the meaning of a term, the
sociology surrounding it expands the change. Consider the "marriage"
of peanut butter and chocolate. Can they get a divorce? Who gets to
keep their wrapper house?
The intelligent move appears to be not to be legally married.
There's tax penalties. Not sure if being in "holy matrimony" while not
filing a marriage with the court of law is a crime. Possibly. Surely
the IRS has a position on people who live together but try to file
separately. The conspiracy theorists amongst us might see the "Gay
Marriage" thrust as a scam on homosexuals. As now the IRS can fine
them if they are filing separately (frm my understanding of tax law,
IANAL).
At any rate, in the US judicial system "marriage" seems more of a
legal contract term than a personal term. Gay Marriage and other
binding contracts are registrations with the government. Why else
would one want to file a marriage contract? Possibly marriage filings
with the government are even a first sign of distrust in a union. Just
as you never had a contract with your mother but would probably always
want one with a business partner. (False argument: government requires
registration of parnet child... a contract!)
You see, I believe the historical "meaning" of marriage exists no
more for most of the USA. Generally the divorce rates are one prime
example. The moral code in the USA she's a changin'. Since we cannot
live in the past we cannot know why people thought marriage was sacred
or what they were thinking; but, alas, we always judge the past from
our current viewpoint. Your idea of marriage will be antiquated and
the word marriage more of a generic term such
as in the "marriage" of peanut butter and chocolate.
Add to this whole argument the utter meaningless of marriage in
places like Boston when it comes to extra-marital sex and claims
contrasted with the extreme weight such situations take in divorce
claims in other states and you still see a very mixed bag where the
term "marriage" has serious meaning in some locales and lesser meaning
in other locales. One would expect the plantation masters in DC to
claim full rights to judge what marriage is and is not and what claims
it represents.
In no way should my ideas be construed as advice or asserted as
accurate!!! :-)
My take, my opinions.
TimJowers