A possible argument against gay marriage?

[UnTheist]

I know this has been beaten to death, but I have never heard this kind of argument before.

From another forum...

It is interesting to see 12 some-odd pages of posts talking about gay rights, but the truth regarding State legislation about gay marriage boils down to one thing, and that is money.

The family court system varies from State to State. What this means is that there are fifty different legislative and judicial models of this civil law subset. The one thing that they all have in common, however, is that they are all modelled after a "mother-father" corporate fiction representation and decree hierarchy. To include same-sex legislation would require a complete re-write of all fifty family court civil law, each respective to their own State (ignoring the Territories which would have to do the same thing).

Obama, being a graduate of Harvard law school, knows full well that it is impossible from a legislative standpoint of simply "including" same sex marriage into law, for all States, without considering that it would cost many millions if not billions of dollars and tens of thousands of lawyer manhours to re-write all these laws on a new modelling system. Even after that, legislative sessions would be swamped as the process of actually passing these laws would take decades to address and re-structure. Summarily, the task would be exteremely expensive and take a very long time to come to fruition. Unless you are a complete shut-in, or ignorant of what's going on out there, you are aware (hopefully) that most States are pretty much stretched to the limit. In other words, they are broke.

The States simply do not have the resource to farm out this task of a complete 're-build' of the family court system. The good news is that, today, a same-sex couple essentially enjoys all the rights and freedoms of a heterosexual husband and wife. You can co-own property, share a joint bank account, even have a ceremony (it just wont be recognized by the State) and nobody is really going to care.

So if you believe that this is really an issue of "rights", then you are most likely uninformed, naive, simple minded, unaware of the real issue, a bullsh.t artist primo fascia, or maybe just plain stupid, or perhaps all of the above.

 

[Storm]

Sounds pretty silly to me, and the ad homs at the end do not improve my opinion.

 

[Green Gaia]

I'm sorry... I don't see the issue here. And the statement that,

a same-sex couple essentially enjoys all the rights and freedoms of a heterosexual husband and wife

is simply not true.

 

[LuisDantas]

I find it very hard to believe that the richest country in the world can't afford to pay for a reformulation of marriage laws. And as pointed out, the closing few sentences are both false and disrespectful.

P.S.: Your son, right, Green Gaia?

 

[Falvlun]

We amended the frickin' Constitution to better protect civil rights. I'm sure it never crossed anyone's mind the cost of reprinting all those little booklets.

Actually, I recently read a news article about California businesses losing business after the passage of Prop 8. Apparently the legalization of gay marriage spurred the economy rather than put it in dire straits that this argument predicts.

 

[stacey bo bacey]

**** money. Money and manpower is not an argument in my eyes. So people are gypped on their rights because of money? Stupidest **** I've ever heard.

 

[Sunstone]

Rvideo has socks for brains.

 

[Germ]

I've never understood any argument against same sex marriage.The only real roadblock are right wing nutjobs.Too bad their the most stubborn people in america.

 

[Sunstone]

Too bad their the most stubborn people in america.

You are probably right about that, Germ. Have you ever read The Authoritarians?

 

[Luminous]

stubborn is as stubborn does

 

[Germ]

"stubborn is as stubborn does".What do you mean?

 

[Riverwolf]

Not a convincing argument at all. How hard or expensive could it be to rewrite a document?!

 

[lilithu]

It is interesting to see 12 some-odd pages of posts talking about gay rights, but the truth regarding State legislation about gay marriage boils down to one thing, and that is money.

Ok...

If it boils down to money then there is no argument as to what we should do:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/07/us/07marriage.html