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Originally posted by Whit
Oh yeah, untill someone can give me a solid reason to say gays shouldn't marry that isn't a religious or emotional thing, I say let 'em marry.
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But to say that they should be married just so they can enjoy the benifits that marriage brings is bunk to me.
There are a lot of people that don't get those breaks. Whats to keep two brothers from becoming married then? Why stop at just gays? To me the fight is for the power of attorney and for the generous tax breaks. The government is not stopping them from having sex or being in love with somebody from the same sex are they? All I want to know is that if they are fighting for equality, fight for equality for all, don't just limit it to yet another group of people.
Lets do away with the some of the absurd tax credits married life brings and bring them to all people. Let parents give the home to their children if they desire instead of it going to pay for their nursing home stay. Let two brothers live together in a house and pass it to the other without getting it tangled up in probate/estate court.
There are many inequalities that the government imposes on people. Big suprise, not everybody is being treated fairly by the good ole USA. I see a ton of 'Indian' tags on vehicles here in Oklahoma. I understand why they do it. They levy a cheaper excise tax on the price of the vehicles. The problem is these people are more 'white' than I am and know nothing about their heritage, but they can prove they are 1/656th indian and hey cheaper tags, alrighty!!!!!!!
But yet I am banned from getting a farm tag on my vehicle because it is not a pickup, but a jeep. I haul wood, feed and hay in the back and use it repeatedly in the upkeep of my farm. But they were getting too many people that were putting farm tags on escalades that never saw dirt roads so they changed it to say that it must have a pickup box on it. So now there are brand new dual cab, dual transmission, dual mirrors, dual everything but gas mileage trucks out there with farm tags that still don't see a dirt road, but still get the tax break. Their tag is $35 dollars, and for my 12 year old jeep its $48. Not so fair in my books, but what can I do.
Want to make sure all people are treated fairly? Lets lobby the government to become smaller, not bigger.
If I were gay I don't think I'd even want to be legally married. They have enough information about me already without knowing I'm married to a member of the same sex.
I know I tend to ramble, but to me it's a much bigger problem than getting the government to issue a piece of paper that says what your doing is legal.