It’s really about benefits, not discrimination

orry, but I just have to wade in on this gay rights marriage thing. So many articles in the media miss the main point. It’s a greed thing – something for nothing. Get your boyfriend or girlfriend up to the old government trough for Social Security marital benefits and to latch onto any company insurance health policies.

Do you think without marital law involved in those two things, the old “two shall become one” to produce offspring and the “in sickness and in health, till death do us part” in the marriage vows would be so attractive? All Social Security and company insurance plans need is a bunch more free-loaders – and we all get to pay. Because of their disgusting sexual perversion they come out and kick up so much dust they get the politicians and normal people to thinking the poor homosexual folks are discriminated against.

In all nature, unless man messes with them, animals have too much dignity for males to breed males or females to breed with females. And no doubt the legal profession will welcome more laws that would make family law more complicated. Homosexual marriage? If not for the serious legal and financial implications, it would be a joke!

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