Eric7216
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If you don't want the "special privileges" and are married, get divorced. Problem solved. And I don't buy your explanation. Perhaps you're being honest, but I've been debating this issue for years, and I have yet to find someone who didn't "magically" come to the conclusion that government sanctioned marriage is wrong for any reason other than SSM becoming more likely to be law. As far as other types of relationships, that is not for the scope of this thread, however, there is no consistency between those relationships and either traditional marriage or SSM.
For most of this discussion, I have tried to respond to your somewhat belligerent questioning. How about turning it around and you provide a good reason why the government should get involved in marriages. My views on this is part of my overall views. I support liberty, equality, personal freedoms, and individual meritocracy. Thomas Paine's main complaint in Common Sense
was his hatred of inherited power. I think that if he were alive today, he would also understand the evils of inherited wealth which leads to power. I am opposed to the conservative idea (supported by so many self-proclaimed liberals) that family matters and that wealth should be passed down. People should gain success as individuals, not as a member of a dynasty. So I tend to be leery of marriage and family when government puts their finger on the scale and enables spouses and children, grandchildren, to be given wealth. I don't deserve anything my father achieved, my wife achieves, and my children don't deserve anything I achieve. People should stand on their own merits, not on family connections. You can never have equality when people are born, or married, into a head start, aided by the government.
Off topic but simply a reason why my feelings about SSM, and hetero marriage, are part of a whole. Marriages add to inequality.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/19/m...e283&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&_r=0