Originally Posted by
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I need not discover anything, I don't rightly care why they or you or anyone else wants to get married. None of my business, quite frankly. If I told you I wanted to get married because I wanted to establish a legal ownership of my wife and kids, I'd be free to do so-- and that is the historic foundation of traditional marriage. But in the interest of speculating, I'm guessing you mean some sort of tax break or some other perk like dependent healthcare-- So what, I don't care if they get those benefits. Yes its a privilege to get them, but I dont see how a few thousand queers getting married would hold a candle to the number of marriages of convenience already getting those benefits. What's next, marriage police? "Sorry sir, you not living according to the ideals of marriage; your's is now void."
I understand why people don't want it, it's because people think gays getting married is an affront to the sanctity of their marriage. I kind of feel this way too, but I can't honestly say what two people do in their marriage affects what I do in my mine, at least not negatively. If anything, gay marriage has brought the benefits of traditional marriage to the forefront of the society; which isn't a bad thing at all. I'd say it has caused many to reevaluate what marriage is intended to do: protect a family's freedom to provide for it's own comfort and safety. That's it. Not to have govt support one value over another in the interest of a healthier society. I call bullshit!
Besides, I don't need govt protecting my family; all I need is the good Lord and gun. So, telling me DOMA protects families is farcical. That's just what people use to justify oppressing somebody, a socialist strategy which is all too commonplace in our government, and it concerns me to see good conservatives engaged in the same practice. Which leads me to the nexus of all policy discussion--What's the purpose of laws infringing upon privileges and rights? You can't take someone's rights except to protect another's. Similarly, you can't tell one person they can't earn a privilege unless they pose a risk to another, as is the case in driving. But there isn't a marriage test, because the safety and security of my marriage doesn't impact yours. Likewise, homo marriage doesn't impact, in any tangible sense, the sanctity of my marriage or anyone else's-- that's just a chickenshit way for someone to put themselves above another. Some people, maybe a lot, don't like what they do and want a legal means of adding credence to a certain type of familial unit-- and that sir, is not equality, it's bigotry, plain and simple. All kinds of perverts and miscreants with compatible genitals get married, so that's cool-- just don't let the fags do it!
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