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First, It would take a significant rework of our laws regarding marriage, from tax code to court precedence and onwards. "Other countries" having it does not in any way negate the difficulty and amount of time spent in changing THIS countries laws. The vast majority of laws would require a mere tweaking to go from allowing only opposite sex to allowing any two people. An entire rework would be needed to allow for joining of 3 or more people. Minor rewrites for something that is discriminating as a Middle Tier category, sex, is far less of an argument against EPC than major rewrites applying to discrimination that would be questionable if it even registered as a group that could be considered under the lowest tier.
So no equality under US law if someone thinks it too complicated. Got ya the first time. Still makes no sense.
Secondly, yes...the difficulties in changing a law is certainly a feasible argument for discriminating against people under the law. Especially something, such as "number of people", which would fall under the least strict tier of the EPC if it would even reach that level. It is a "rational" basis in suggesting this discrimination serves a legitimate government interest, that of spending time and money on issues at a reasonable level of importance compared to cost. Seeing as how there is no strict constitutional protection towards "Numbers of people" that can enter into a government, the amount of time and effort to go into reworking an entire section of our legal, tax, and court systems to accommodate this is not reasonable. And such is all that would be required to constitutionally allow such discrimination.
It's not like we did it with Obama care, Oh wait.
No excuse for discrimination. Or equal protection for people who's only crime is loving each other. It is not really any of your business how many wifes or husbands a person has anyway.
Thirdly, this is not even toughing upon the other potential issues which I'm sure others who have studied those things more would be better apt to speak on, for example regarding family units and other such matters.
Still waiting for proof on that as well since the larger the family as in extended family, seems to be better for rearing children according to gay marriage proponents.
The rest was pretty much nothing but off topic personal attacks so I ignored them.
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