Gay Marraige

Me oh My!! Can't we all just get along??

As is usual the government has it's nose where it doesn't belong. Marriage is a religious institution. It always has been. So in violation of the separation of church and state, government has it's fingers deep into marriage. Why so??? TAXES.

There is a simple answer to this entire mess. The government should issue only civil unions. These civil unions can be between any combination of consenting adults. The tax breaks are based on a 'divide by two' strategy. IE: Any two civilly joined people get the 'married' tax rate. Any three get the tax rate for a couple and a single. Any four get the married tax rate for all. In other words, an odd coupling will leave one party to pay single rate while the others pay 'married' rates.

Marriages, being religious institutions, should be performed by religious entities.

Any group of people that wishes to bind themselves legally should be able to do so. Government has no business in the living arrangements of consenting adults.

The individual religious institutions would have to decide those for whom they want to perform a marriage ceremony. IE: If a church was morally opposed to homosexuality, then they would refuse to marry that gay couple. If another church had a different view, it could marry the same couple. For legal purposes, the government would have to issue the civil union.

If the government were to go to a flat tax and abolish all other taxes - embedded and overt, then it would not even have to worry about civil unions at all. Legal name change would be all that was involved. But the flat tax rate is a different post.

My take is that if 5 women and two men wish to ALL be married to one another in a big 'ol 'family', it is none of the government's business.