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Originally Posted by hooligan
I believe the most expensive state charges ~$115 for a marriage license. With homosexuality somewhere around 3% of the population, I promise you the revenue from same sex marriages plays little to no part in states' decisions to legalize it.
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In just the first five months of same sex marriage in California in 2008, 18,000 same sex couples married at a cost of $85 per marriage license and an additional $100 more to wed in the courthouse. Just the fees alone was 1.53 million dollars and if all had wed in the courthouse a total of 3.3 million dollars, none of which acounts for wedding ceremonies or celebrations known to cost a couple grand. None of that is chump change. Same sex marriage has not deterred heterosexuals from getting married in any state it has become legal in, so it is additional revenue that most states can use.
The issue I have with polygamy is the legal issues. Who is married to who in a polygamous marriage? Is the husband only the primary? Are the wives only married to him and not to each other so when of if he dies, they are all widows and not married or tied to each other? How does his SS get divided up among the wives and children? If all the wives and children get full SS benefits as would a spouse married to one spouse, they then become a burden upon the tax system by taking up a disproportionate allowance. I can understand allowing a wealthy man or woman to have as many spouses or children as they can afford and I can understand polyamorous relationships and know some in that kind of relationship. But polygamy is not polyamorous, the women are not in love with each other, same with polyandry where the woman is the primary spouse with multiple husbands. Legal polyamorous marriages would allow bi sexuals to marry other bi sexuals allowing a multitude of marriage possibilities beyond all the rest. Still all legal relationships other then one married to one regardless of the sex of the two creates legalities not similar to one on one marriage. Polygamy and Polyandry would both require different laws then those that govern one on one marriage. But other then those laws, I do not care who loves who are wants to marry as long as all are in consent and of age.
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We rarely, if ever, see that. Wonder why??
