Government out of Marriage

So Civil Rights for homosexuals has entered the "Massive Resistance" era, where folks like Rand Paul advocate shutting the whole system of marriage down instead of gaying it up, just as they tried to do with school integration.

I'm pretty sure it's too late, but Freepers are desperate these days and willing to try anything.

GraceG is a fan. Also alternate spelling!

I like this because it takes the wind out of the ghey liberal argument that the tax code is unfair towards ghey couples.

Poison Pill is also into the idea:

At this point I think all governments should just get out of the marriage business altogether. Stop issuing mariage licences and make everyone file taxes as a single. Then if their church, temple, coven, lesbian action league, gay men’s choir group or whatever wants to proclaim them married they can knock themselves out.

SomeCallMeTim knows the problem is that gays are insisting on being considered "equal."

Even in states where they have been granted EVERY other benefit with a Civil Union, they are not happy... What they want is, for their bizarre behavior to be consider "normal" and "equal"... They crave something that is not reality, and never will be.

Vigilanteman's analogy doesn't sound petulant at all!

If a worker demonstrates gross incompetence in a necessary skill-set and no inclination to improve but, indeed, a heightened stubbornness to cling to said incompetence, you assign them to a different line of work or get rid of them completely. So it should be with our government's involvement in marriage.

Viennacon thinks atheists can't marry and Unitarians don't exist.

A marriage is done in a church, or some other kind of religious temple. It’s a ritual. If you’re an atheist, you can’t really be married, though you can sign onto a union of mutual financial interest and responsibility. A marriage is before divinity, a pact not only with a person, but with God.

This may be the best way to win the argument. Get government out of marriage, then homosexuals will have to join “homosexual churches” to get married, and as such progressive churches quickly lose membership and collapse, eventually, they just won’t be able to get “married”. They’ll be back in the deviant wilderness with the zoophiles and the polygamists.

SamuraiScot knows buttsex is a crim against the innocent. Also gay marriage is child slavery:

Paul's idea would push things in exactly the wrong direction. Sodomy is a crime. Everyone knows this, especially homosexuals. To claim that it's not a crime—or that it's a crime outside the jurisdiction of every level of government—is violence against the innocent. The consequences of such a move would come to include the legalization of what already goes on outside the law: the buying and selling of children as sex slaves.

RaceBannon registers his objection:

I TOLD YOU ALL

HE IS NOT A CONSERVATIVE!

HIS POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY IS BASED ON IMMORALITY, NOT FREEDOM

LICENSE, NOT LIBERTY!