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June 13, 2006
To the dungeons with Gay divorcees?
Interesting comment left at Dr. Helen's divorce podcast post: My view is that gay marriage will sink fatherhood even lower, if that is possible. You will have divorced mothers collecting child support, alimony, divorce settlements, tax benefits, and possibly welfare like now. But heterosexual divorced mothers will marry each other for additional cash incentives, including tax breaks and lower insurance costs.Food for thought, and I have discussed the idea of heterosexual same sex marriage in a number of posts. But I'd like to know more about "Uncle Sam's gay dungeon debtor's prisons." (Someone might be able to turn such a thing into a profit-making venture.) posted by Eric on 06.13.06 at 09:09 AM
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I agree with your view of SSM. But "Great White Lawyer"? Don't you mean Great White Shark? :) I can't vouch for what was in the commenter's mind, but he might have been thinking about tax loopholes. Same sex marriage would allow any two men to marry and reduce their tax burdens accordingly, without the hassle that often comes from opposite sex marriage. While there might not be love or sex, isn't that also true of many existing marriages? I think same sex marriages might lead to new IRS rules -- with similar scrutiny to that used by the INS in determining whether a marriage to an immigrant is a "bona fide" marriage. But what is a "bona fide" marriage? Won't this inviting further state scrutiny? Eric Scheie · June 14, 2006 11:35 AM http://www.mediumstor-kvinnlig-student.knu11a.com | we · June 20, 2006 05:21 AM |
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I'm ignorant of divorce (not personally, but in the law). Can you explain, as a Great White Lawyer, how this scheme works? Because, I don't get why this would work, and divorcing one man and marrying another man (currently legal) wouldn't net the same benefits for the mother.
My big argument against gay marriage is just that, if we decide to say what types of relationships are OK and that that is up for debate, well, we're going to waste a damn long time debating it. I'd prefer just letting people set up their own binding contracts, but that's the hopeless libertarian in me.