Silhouette
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Hmmmm Maybe someday states will consider incentivizing marriage laws to benefit children. They haven't so far. Of course most 'marriage benefits' have nothing to do with children. For instance inheritance laws- spouses get automatic exemptions- children don't. Community property- the same thing- if it was all about children- how come the children don't have community property with their mom and dad? Marriage laws could be enacted so that states give parents specific incitements to have children once they are married.
But no state does that. Fact is- it costs more to raise a child than any parent gets from a tax deduction. And that tax deduction- parents get that whether they are married or not.
Playing dumb again I see...
The idea that a state has is to reward THE ADULTS for STAYING TOGETHER in marriage. A child legally has no right to control resourcs such as community property until they are of age so your strawman is a moot point. And the states have long ago deduced that if a child's blood parents or at least an acceptable complmentary pair of father/mother to children do well, the children also do well.
And before you launch into your "what about the states granting divorce" retort, the states RELUCTANTLY grant divorce for irreconcilable differences in a hostile environment that no longer is beneficial to the children in it. A state grants divorce with a heavy heart, not one ounce of glee. And again, divorce is also about the children; bitter fighting in a toxic home is not to their best interest.
There is no other conceivable purpose for a state to be involved in incentivizing the privelege of marriage. Furthermore, Windsor 2013 affirmed that each state may decide for itself whether or NOT to ratify gay marriage. Ergo, until further notice that is the law that binds all lower circuit courts. Hence the reason I posted this thread. At the end of the writing of Windsor 2013 it Affirmed that gay marriage "is only allowed in some states". That's the final word on federal interference until SCOTUS says otherwise.
Each state has a right to incentivize which arrangement they see best for a child's formative environment. That's all that marriage is ultimately about. It's nice that adults want to solemnize their commitment together but that is a religious matter. The secular matter of marriage is ALL ABOUT the kids. Each discreet community has the right and power to determine which situation is best to incentivize for the sake of the kids in their borders.
Either father/mother, or that arrangement and one that guarantees the lack of the complimentary gender (which may be the child's own) and one blood parent 100% of the time (gay marriage).. And in the interest of equality/fair play if marriage is deemed a "right" instead of what it is now (a privelege) also polygamy incest and so on... Remember, NO PERSON shall be disenfranchised from a "right" that others enjoy..
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