Gay Marriage Is Inevitable For Economic Reasons

[McCamy Taylor]

The way some people talk about it, gay marriage is a symbolic act, a frivolous thing, like wanting white sidewall tires. However, there is a very good reason why gay marriage is going to be allowed---no, encouraged by the governments of all the states in the near future.

Money.

Right now, if someone becomes disabled or needs nursing home care and he or she has a working spouse, some states will force the partner to pay for that care. No one is allowed to walk away and start over, no matter how much they might want to. If you were living together, maybe. But it you tied the knot, you said for better or worse, and so you get to help pay for the "for worse".

As all of us, heterosexual and homosexual, start getting older and start getting sicker, the states are going to start looking for ways to cut their social service spending. They will want each child to have two parents, so that there is always someone to pay child support. (That is why they send someone to the hospital to get the dad to sign on the dotted line as soon as the baby is born, when he is bursting with pride, before he has a chance to think OMG! Child support! )And they will want everyone to have somebody there to help them in their old age, just in case. Children are being required by law to support their parents, and spouses are being told to do the same thing.

It would not surprise me if states come up with a system of communal marriages one day, to deepen the pockets. But, in the meantime, some bureaucrat will eventually figure out that money can be saved by letting everyone marry.

They will call it "marriage" because it is easier to say "You have to pay, because you said for better or for worse" and send people on a guilt trip than to say "You signed a contract."

Not too romantic, but that is how I see it happening.

[Swamp Rat]

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