I feel the need to comment on this gay marriage issue that is causing so much rutkus. When all is said and done this is what is right (sorry no opinion here, this is the right). The government should not care about marriage at all. There is no reason for it to, to endorse marriage in some form is to endorse some kind of religion.
What purpose does it serve for the government to consider two individuals separately or together? The only thing it is really good for is for the sake of income taxes (which I will conveniently ignore as being wrong for the sake of this argument). But honestly the government only really cares about is if someone is a dependent on another, which could be easily determined if somebody's income is below the poverty line (or however one wants to figure it out).
If you consider marriage a legal binding contract then it should not mater to the government whom the parties involved are. The only problem I see is that a spouse can choose to not testify against their partner without fear of obstruction of justice. Which of course can be broadly interpreted anyway (and has been several times already).
As soon as the government gives up any sort of control or endorsement of marriage the better off things will be. This should not be a political issue, it should be an issue within whichever church or cult people belong to. We live amongst Christians, Jews, Muslims, and Mormons who all have distinctly different views of marriage and the only time the government should get involved is if someone's rights are being violated.
Right now the issue of gay marriage is really simply a distraction from any sort of real issue the government should deal with. It is a way to jab at the establishment without actually having any sort of constructive proposal. There are an incredible amount of reforms that need to occur that will never happen because people will never get together and organize a formal protest against the intrusions into our lives that are progressively getting worse and worse.
What purpose does it serve for the government to consider two individuals separately or together? The only thing it is really good for is for the sake of income taxes (which I will conveniently ignore as being wrong for the sake of this argument). But honestly the government only really cares about is if someone is a dependent on another, which could be easily determined if somebody's income is below the poverty line (or however one wants to figure it out).
If you consider marriage a legal binding contract then it should not mater to the government whom the parties involved are. The only problem I see is that a spouse can choose to not testify against their partner without fear of obstruction of justice. Which of course can be broadly interpreted anyway (and has been several times already).
As soon as the government gives up any sort of control or endorsement of marriage the better off things will be. This should not be a political issue, it should be an issue within whichever church or cult people belong to. We live amongst Christians, Jews, Muslims, and Mormons who all have distinctly different views of marriage and the only time the government should get involved is if someone's rights are being violated.
Right now the issue of gay marriage is really simply a distraction from any sort of real issue the government should deal with. It is a way to jab at the establishment without actually having any sort of constructive proposal. There are an incredible amount of reforms that need to occur that will never happen because people will never get together and organize a formal protest against the intrusions into our lives that are progressively getting worse and worse.
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