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Quote by: texasdave  Court costs only offset a portion of the costs of marriage and divorce. |
What costs would these be? Are you saying that the fees people pay for marriage licenses don't offset the state's outlay? And somehow the government subsidizes divorce costs? I'm not sure what you're talking about here, but I'd love to see some evidence.
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Quote by: texasdave We do not need nor should we pay for the additional burden homosexual marriage would place on our already overcrowded court system. |
What burden? The thousands upon thousands of divorce proceedings that would inevitably follow the legalization of gay marriage?
Why do you think there would be any appreciable number of divorce proceedings requiring court time?
Why aren't you speaking out against no-fault divorce or alimony and communal property laws between heterosexuals, or one of the other institutions that has led to the massive percentage of heterosexual unions that end in divorce? Or the time and money lost on frivolous lawsuits? Of all the problems facing our courts, I would think that gay divorce would be low on the list.
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Quote by: texasdave And gay marriage will normalize homosexuality and encourage others to experiment with it thus furthering the problems of STDs. And that will further strain the health care system. And there is a difference in costs from indigent care to health insurance. Indigent care does not cover everything. Health insurance would cover more and therefore costs would rise for insurance. |
The segment of the population with the highest rates of STDs is teenagers, not homosexuals. Once again, I think you're looking at the wrong problem. I'd also like to see a smidge of evidence that the legalization of gay marriage would increase homosexuality. Did heterosexuality rates increase when heterosexual marriage was made a government institution?
All sarcasm aside, I think homosexuality is well on its way to being socially acceptable, and it's going to get there whether gay marriage is legitimized or not. So I'm not sure what we are preventing, by keeping homosexuals from having legal unions.
But I'll tell you what we're losing: we're losing our ability to cohere as a nation. We're losing our ideals, of freedom and equality for all. We're losing the valuable contributions that homosexuals give to society, as people are not going to live in a place where they are not wanted. We're losing the separation of church and state, and thus our ability to create a rational, humane government.
And in exchange -- what? We save money on a tax break? I have a solution for that: remove the tax breaks for all married couples. All of 'em. Problem solved. Or here's an even better one: pull our military out of Iraq and stop spending billions of dollars on our addiction to foreign oil. Problem solved again.