The Future of the Family

[kseniia_antir]

I found this article about the future of the family rather interesting. Especially this guy's statement:

I believe that the family life that I grew up with will be over with in 20 years. As the gay community tries to seek legal marriage, the straight community will stop the practice and the divorce rate will continue to climb as the morals of

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[lawgirlvt]

Ummmmm, yeah. I'm going to go ahead and stay married, I think, and then pretty soon you'll be married, too, and then you and M and S and I can sit around talking about how great it is to be married. You know, us all being non-related consenting adults with only one spouse. Because that's the part the gets me about those morons, the ones who say, "what's next? Allow gay marriage and then pretty soon we'll be letting people marry their brothers or sisters or pets and then we'll start allowing polygamy." Because, no, we won't, unless society decides to start allowing those things. It's hardly a slippery slope, where allowing one thing that has not historically been tolerated means letting everyone on the marriage bus. And certainly there are valid, scientific reasons for not allowing incest (you know, the health problems associated with inbreeding) and marriage to pets (aside from just, you know, yuck) that don't apply in the case of gay marriage. But my general take on the anti-gay marriage people is "don't like gay marriage?

[kseniia_antir]

:) Don't worry, the soapbox is a cozy place. What's funny is that I remember S being a little weirded out by me and M, when you two just started dating. But he certainly got over it! *grin*

[kseniia_antir]

Incidentally, one reason I've been thinking about it today is that we went to an estate planning seminar for same-sex couples last night. It's mind-boggling how complicated things are if you don't have that little paper that says you're married, for example, if you buy a house together (as M and I did). For example, as "single" people who are legally strangers, if we sell our house, we have to pay capital gains taxes on any profit over $250,000. If we were married, we'd have to pay capital gains on any profit over $500,000. Things I didn't know...

[kseniia_antir]

Ah, that's a good analogy. I was having trouble thinking of one. :) I think anyone who bases their own decision of whether or not to get married on the legality of some stranger's marriage really oughtn't be spreading their genes around.

[pandorasbox]

um I would get married regardless.. silly republicans

[kseniia_antir]

*haha* :) Silly indeed.

[elfreda]

_My_ relationship is not threatened by anyone else's relationship. I do, however feel very threatened by the religious fundamentalists in Oklahoma and everywhere else that want to run my life.

I don't understand why the US gummint is in the marriage business anyway - separation of church and state and all that. It should be issuing licenses for civil unions, period.

[kseniia_antir]

Hear, hear. I agree 100%. Either it's a religious issue ("the bible says Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve"), in which case the state should butt out, or it's a secular issue (not governed by the bible), in which case the church should butt out.

[monkeybung]

If we were married, we'd stay that way. We aren't and will probabaly stay that way. We bought a house, too, as "single" people. Why can't they just stay out of EVERYONES' lives, church AND state. Fuck 'em.