Skylar
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That's up to them. Not really any of your concern.
Sure lawmakers will waste time rewriting everything. Door will be wide open for abuse of benefits. Employers and financials institutions will have to make changes. Courts will be busy with all this silliness. The ratio of men to women may be thrown off. But hey why should I care.
You can care about anything you like. It just isn't your concern. How people want to complicate their lives is their business. So long as the government is in the marriage business, they need to treat everyone equally.
It is illegal now and there is no reason to change that. History has proven it is bad, that is why society moved away from it.
It was illegal for people of different races to marry before. No reason to change that. Except that old fashioned concept of equal protection under the law. But hell, who gives a damn about that so long as it isn't you being discriminated against. Right?
There wasn't a long history of abuse with different races marrying. We do however have a long history of abuse of women and children with polygamy. Quite the huge difference. There is a reason modern society moved away from polygamy, there is no reason to go back now.
Nor was the justification for interracial marriage bans 'past abuse'. But this:
Almighty God created the races white, black, yellow, malay and red, and he placed them on separate continents. And but for the interference with his arrangement there would be no cause for such marriages. The fact that he separated the races shows that he did not intend for the races to mix.
Judge Leon Bazille,
Though I'd have to look into the history of polygamy a bit deeper before I have an opinion on its historic abuses. I don't know enough to comment intelligently.