Day 18: Your views on gay marriage

I am going to preface this with the note that this is not about homosexuality. It is about marriage. And, if I am going to talk about gay marriage I think it's important that we first look at marriage in general. The original purpose of marriage was so that two people could be joined together in order to produce children. One could argue that gay people can't produce children (I'm not including adoption here) and so gay people have no right to marry. OK, so any two people who can not produce children should not be able to get married. That means if you are infertile, sorry, no marriage for you. If you don't want children because you want to focus on your career that means you also can't get married.

Don't forget that marriage was also a religious ceremony. That means if you don't believe in God, then you don't need to get married.

So maybe you think that's "old fashioned." Marriage is now something governed by the state, religion optional. Let's look at reasons to get married from the state view.

The biggest reasons are for taxes and to allow medical benefits for your spouse. After all, you want the person you love to be taken care of, right? And here is where I can bring up that whole "love" thing. Theoretically you love your spouse (or at least you did when you decided to marry them) I mean, no one has ever married an illegal immigrant just so they could get a green card and stay in the country, right? Why would anyone do that? For state/national benefits... but you know what's interesting? If one person is a man, and the other is a woman, even if they don't love each other they are still allowed to get married. Funny, huh?

So what about Joe and Steve? Or Nancy and Karen? These couples love each other very much. They want to spend the rest of their lives together. They want to provide for the other person. Let's say Nancy gets in a car accident. She is in a coma. Karen has no say in her treatment. Joe dies. Steve gets no survivors benefits. 

I'm just saying.