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It matters if you want my tax dollars to subsidize them.
They may have other reason for wishing to be married, but the only one that matters to the rest of us is the children, which is the only reason to involve the government.
Who is this phantom "the rest of us," and how would your tax dollars be involved? I am a straight female taxpayer, and I'm not concerned with these things - so please don't speak for all of us, mkay? Furthermore, I hope you realize that gay people are more often in the higher tax brackets, have more disposable income, and overall have higher salaries and less government dependence compared to the straight community. So if anything, they should be telling us whether or not we can marry... I mean, since you think paying taxes gives you the right to dictate what other people do with their lives and all.
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There are already men and women who game the system, by getting married for ulterior motives that have to do with monetary gain, so i would assume just as many gays would do the same. I have no information on why gays want to be married, but i would assume the monetary perks are at the top of the list, especially if they do not intend to ever adopt children.
Among straights, marrying a woman who already has children is not popular, and I'd imagine that goes the same for all people, regardless of their sexual preferences. Having a baby with another person, with that child being a part of both of you is a stronger allure to getting married, then to adopt the child of another person.
None of the above is your business, nor is it relevant to the legalities of being a married couple... double standard much?
There will always be thieves, frauds and charlatans who will abuse the systems of government, we cannot condemn the entire institution of marriage, or burden the rest of married couples because of those few.
It's my opinion that you are consciously engaging in a fraud, if you are going to take advantage of the charity of others, on a pretense. I don't need your permission to see you as leaching off the rest of us. But even so, you may end up having a child anyway.
Please show me where children are an assumption of the marriage contract. You can show that right? That's the only way any logical human could see my marriage as a fraud.
Because they are not members of the opposite gender - thus they cannot be called "married". Real simple - go look up the definition of marriage.
Already did that, and most current dictionaries include the definition "or between same-sex couples where it is legal." I'd post a link for you, but I'm on a cell phone and I'm sure you're capable of finding it yourself.
Among straights, marrying a woman who already has children is not popular, and I'd imagine that goes the same for all people, regardless of their sexual preferences. Having a baby with another person, with that child being a part of both of you is a stronger allure to getting married, then to adopt the child of another person.
Why would I want to make a child when there are so many children out there who need loving homes? I could care less if my child is "a part of me." Originating from my sperm doesn't make a child I raise any more part of me.
Maybe that's my homosexual parenting instincts talking. If you look at nature, "homosexual" members of many species (especially bird species) pair together and then take in and raise young (often orphaned young). For instance, 25% of male black swans live in life-long, monogamous male-male pairings. They take in orphaned chick and often steal eggs from nests they then hatch and raise. The chicks raised by the male-male pairings are twice as likely to survive to adulthood than those raised by male-female parings.
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