aikohualda said:
you havent heard of tax? and having the rights to be in your wife or husband if they were in an accident????? you have no idea why we want to practice marriage.... most of the time we cant adopt because we are consider as "single" because we can never be married in other states.... |
I am completely opposed to taxation in any form so I feel for you in that regard, and I consider it discrimination (in our current system) that married couples (gay and straight) get special benefits and tax breaks that singles do not. I thought you could be with your husband/wife/significant other in an accident regardless of marital status ... there are ways around that outside of marriage I believe (could give power of attorney to virtually anyone I believe as long as a lawyer sets it up). Adoption is a farce the way it is structured right now ... way too expensive, and it is really only an option for married couples which is definately discrimination against singles.
Let me repeat, I am against marriage as a legal institution. All of the benefits given by marriage are discriminatory against those who choose to not get married, or those who have not gotten married yet. If a man and woman/man and man/woman and woman want to get married and spend there lives together that is fantastic for them. All I am saying is that marriage as a legal institution with special rights should cease to exist for straight people and gay people. It is just like the concept of a corporation ... a company is a company it is not a person with rights no matter what the government says. We should be fighting for the fact that singles should not be treated like second class citizens. We should fight for marriage as a special bond between a couple and not as a legally binding contract. Like I said, keep lawyers out of love.
