Equal restrictions
Leave it to Thomas Sowell to give me a new perspective on gay marriage.
I remember hearing Bush's response to some question referring to the advantages of marriage in avoiding the death tax was something to the effect of "I want to get rid of the death tax." He didn't address how he would give equal rights to homosexuals. He instead addressed the root of the problem of how the government unrightly takes people's hard earned money away when they die instead of giving out the money as directed by the person's will.
I do not understand people's desire to have the government involved in so many aspects of their lives. The government became involved in marriage in the first place to prevent interracial marriages.
Of all the phony arguments for gay marriage, the phoniest is the argument that it is a matter of equal rights. Marriage is not a right extended to individuals by the government. It is a restriction on the rights they already have.So its not a matter of equal rights, but a matter of equal restriction of their rights! Homosexuals should feel good that they cannot have the restrictions of marriage forced upon them. Instead of fighting for marriage rights, they should fight for changes in all the ridiculous laws that marriage allows loopholes for, and then marriage as a government institution will no longer need to exist.
People who are simply living together can make whatever arrangements they want, whether they are heterosexual or homosexual. They can divide up their worldly belongings 50-50 or 90-10 or whatever other way they want. They can make their union temporary or permanent or subject to cancellation at any time.
Marriage is a restriction. If my wife buys an automobile with her own money, under California marriage laws I automatically own half of it, whether or not my name is on the title. Whether that law is good, bad, or indifferent, it is a limitation of our freedom to arrange such things as we ourselves might choose. This is just one of many decisions that marriage laws take out of our hands.
I remember hearing Bush's response to some question referring to the advantages of marriage in avoiding the death tax was something to the effect of "I want to get rid of the death tax." He didn't address how he would give equal rights to homosexuals. He instead addressed the root of the problem of how the government unrightly takes people's hard earned money away when they die instead of giving out the money as directed by the person's will.
I do not understand people's desire to have the government involved in so many aspects of their lives. The government became involved in marriage in the first place to prevent interracial marriages.
posted by Brian at 11:15 AM
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AND they can't share health care, pensions after their partner dies, get tax benefits, and on and on and on. That's a great libertarian argument to support the republican stance.
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