Skylar
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The incentives the government gives in marriage as it has done in the past, is only dealing with the benefit side of marriage in which it offers only as an incentive package for a man and a woman who want to join together in holy matrimony, and to pro-create in order to form a family unit under the long held traditional tenets that are found under the religious ceremony called marriage, and that was to the only extent that government wanted to be involved in it.
Holy matrimony I leave to you. If you want a religious ceremony, have one. If you want to exclude gays from your religious ceremony, enjoy. No one cares.
Marriage equality is about equal protection under the law.
So no farther did it go as is being requested of them today, because the breech between Church and State could apply very easily here if doing so.
Its utterly non-denominational and doesn't necessarily involve any religious observance. Nixing the 'church and state' argument. Invalidating every marriage certificate in the country seems a little......extreme....just to keep gays out.
Yes the state gives perks in order to support the pro-creation and stability of the family unit that is defined under the religious ceremonial definition of marriage, but it enters not into the re-defining of the word nor does it enter into the changing of the definition of marriage itself,, and why is this ? It is because that would be a violation of Church and State to do so (IMHO).
Having children isn't a requirement of marriage. Nor is the ability to have them. Not in any of the 50 states. Ending the 'family unit' argument. As if children were a requirement for a valid marriage, then infertile couples and childless married couples would have long since been excluded.
They aren't. Why then would we invent a standard that doesn't exist, exempt all straights, and then apply it exclusively to gays? There is no reason.