Originally posted by JaxonRoberts
reply to post by ProtoplasmicTraveler
OK, that post made me laugh! I've been married, so I know better than to make that mistake twice. But you forgot that those who chose to will also
have the right to be their mates next of kin when something bad happens, they will have the right to inherit their mates estate when they die, they
will have the right to... You get the point!
I can appreciate your sentiments, as I am all for gay rights. No person’s sexuality engaged in consensual relationships with emotionally healthy
adults should ever be questioned by others in my humble opinion.
I realize the unexpected in life happens sometimes for those cases were there wasn’t a will made up before an untimely or unexpected passing, but
even as a heterosexual I can more or less stipulate a next of kin in a legally binding contract of my choosing as well as give anyone I stipulate
limited or full Power of Attorney on my behalf.
I can appreciate aspects like Social Security Death Benefits as being a valid reason for gays to seek legal marriage.
I can appreciate the desire for legitimacy in the eyes of the law, yet both our current President and former President here in the United States are
and were respectively considered to still be illegitimate by some based on how an individual wants to interpret the law or disagree with the law.
Ultimately validation in life really only comes when you agree with and condone how you are living your life, regardless of what others might say or
think.
This is a conspiracy website by the way and I point that out because the actual marriage laws as they apply to heterosexuals have some sinister
aspects to them when you examine how and why the corporate government began licensing marriages in the first place.
I don’t advocate the current legal institution of marriage in its present form for anyone regardless of their sexual orientation.
You are right that some legal privileges and protections are afforded by it, but so are many more legal obligations and burdens. I personally don’t
believe the former outweigh the latter in any circumstance though I do concur people of all sexual orientations should have the right to enter in to a
legal union if they be so inclined.
I just personally advise against a legal union to anyone and everyone if they be so inclined! Take a Vegas vacation hire an escort, get inebriated,
see a good mental health specialist, get some electric shock treatments but don’t get married!