Drlee wrote:
Absolutely untrue. In case you haven't noticed there is such a thing as the marriage penalty. Many married couples 49% as a matter of fact pay more. Only in the case where the two tax payers earn very different amounts do you see the opposite. There are no other, as far as I can see, financial benefits to being married unless you might include health care and that is no certainty. So wrong as usual.
Eh?
51% have lower taxes because they're married., whereas only
42% would have had their taxes lower had they remained single.
LINK. Other benefits refer to Social Security benefits & cheaper insurance.
Nonsense. In 2007 40% of American children were born out of wedlock. So there goes that argument. It is an insignificant difference. In the past the number of children born out of wedlok was lower but in much of the world it has been higher for some time. As to your second homophobic comment typical of your general bigotry, as ECA said, many studies have shown that there is no difference in parenting skills between same-sex and straight couples. It is noteworthy that adoptive couples are evaluated for suitability, financial responsibility and parenting ability prior to being allowed to adopt. All a straight couple needs is a bottle of whiskey, Kenny G. (or if you prefer Merle Haggard) and the backseat of a Ford.
Lets say you've four couples, A & B are heterosexual, and C & D are homosexual. "A" gets married, "B" don't; the fertility rate of "A" increases. If "C" gets married, and "D" does not, there is no change in fertility because homosexual relationships are infertile.
Further, the point I labeled (2), that is,
"(2) married couples make superior parents. "; was in reference to the dichotomy of results between children of married parents and those who are not.
Of course your bigoted ideas blind you to the fact that lesbians (who happen to be homosexual but I guess do not frighten you as much as the male variety) are potentially twice as fertile as any heterosexual couple as it is quite possible for them to both be carrying children at the same time! All they need is a few dollars for some frozen doctor sperm (maybe some of mine but then I digress) and they are on their way.
The point, which you're ignoring, is that marriage does not increase lesbian fertility rates.
EDIT:
Why did no one who is pro-gay marriage answer my question about why we should maintain the preferential treatment of married couples?