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The government gives tax breaks to married people only when one of the people is a dependent (doesn't work or doesn't make enough money) on the other. Further tax breaks are given for people who take care of children. The goal of these policies is to encourage people to take care of each other.
So maybe group marriage should be allowed? Except, I think there are other factors that might not make it fly. Like no one is lobbying for those that want group marriages. This is really off-topic though. So... um... yay for gay, I say!
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the best solution might be to base benefits on a given situation as opposed to marriages or relations... we get that problem in the US... you can get benefits for caring for a blind relative in your home, but not the same if just caring for a blind "friend"
as far as marriage goes... remove it from the legal system all together
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however, in a perfect world i'd love to see marriage... heterosexual, homosexual, group, with your cat, etc. as a purely social function... take it out of the legal system entirely... there is really no good reason to keep it as a "legal" thing
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I gotta stay away from this topic.....sigh
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so you argree that it is good to have these marriages? i mean im a bisexual so i wont really have a problem when it comes to marriage but gays...and lesbians ?? i dunno
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Did you ever take into consideration that the majority of people prefer to leave those definitions and ceremonies IN the legal system. Thankfully society still recognizes the difference.
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IMO, tradition is part of the definition of who we are as a people and a society.
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You may not regard that as legal, BJ, but those societies did. Check out the record of marriage in the Egyptian sources and Semitic sources dating back at least to ~1250 BCE. I know facts bother you, but DO try to get them correct!
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The reason it has to be "broken" is because it is normative throughout history to recognize marriage as betwixt male and female, not between two persons of the same gender (from birth or surgically).
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tradition purely for its own sake is pointless
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And anarchy for its own self is pointless.
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