Clarification on Gay Marriage

[digitaldiscipline]

I don't much care if "marriage" is the term applied to non-standard legal partnerships or not, but the express denial of equality of status in the eyes of the pervasive bureaucracy is what gets my dander up.

I've said before that the most compelling reason for me to marry K is the tax benefit (and the subsequent tax pressure to procreate) and to get on her health insurance plans. Those, as far as I can tell, have nothing to do with love and devotion.

Straight couples have successfully made the divorce rate skyrocket; there's no proof in either direction that homosexual partnerships would mitigate or exacerbate this trend.

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[singingwolf.livejournal.com]

Actually, there is a very good chance that homosexual partnerships would lower the divorce rate... if it ever gets truly accepted by "mainstream" society.

Why, do I feel like this??

Because with social acceptance, there will be less homosexuals trying to lead a "normal" life in a "normal" marriage as a hetero...when all they end up doing is making themselves, their spouse, and any children that might be involved, abso-fcking-lutely miserable.

I have a feeling that the suicide rate would drop down quite a bit too... You gotta admit that being constantly classed as a "second class citizen", "soul-less", an "embodiment of eeeevvvviiiillll" to going to depress someone who is not totally comfortable with who/what he or she may be. Depress to suicidal levels I mean. (I remember having to stay on suicide watch for a friend when everything society threw at him finally reached critical mass... He was much less sure of himself then he let on to most.)

So, anyway, there's the logic behind my rebuttle...