| Leopard said: "The government has no business being involved with marriage - it should not be trying to endorse or restrict marriage in any way - it is a purely societal thing."
A nice ideal. The ironical fact is that government and the courts micromanage marriage in incredible detail. For example, there are many kinds of rules on division of property upon breakup, including pensions. In addition, it is a trial lawyers and creative jurist paradise: Prenups are routinely violated, penalties and payments are often court decided, depending on how good your lawyer is or how creative the judge is.
It would be instructive to search the state and federal laws pertaining to marriage, and to have a lawyer buddy search the case law.
Perhaps the real question, in the light of the immense body of law and case law is: why in the world would gays (or anybody) want to subject themselves to this? |