Decius wrote:
] Elonka wrote:
] ] Battles over wills and death benefits? It's not just about
] ] letting a gay man put his partner on his health insurance
] ] policy, there's a whole slew of legal battles that would be
] ] opened up by allowing gay marriages.
]
] Why should these questions be resolved any differently then
] for any other kind of couple. The only difference that I can
] see relates to child support, in that homosexual couples
] cannot produce offspring.

Okay, how's this for a scenario: Joe marries Jack. Joe and Jack adopt a baby. Then Joe decides he's not gay anymore, divorces Jack, and marries Jill. Does Jill refer to Jack as "my husband's ex-husband?" Then what if Joe says that he wants the baby to have a mother instead of a second father. Does Jill have more right to take on guardianship than Jack, because of her gender?

Marriage isn't just "a cool idea". It's something with thousands of generations of history and laws and economic policy that are based on the concept of marriage being between opposite genders, though there are of course differences in how marriage is regarded in different cultures. For example, considerable disagreement on *how many* spouses that a particular person can have. ;)

I'm curious now though: Is there any historical precedent anywhere about a culture or country or kingdom that sanctioned homosexual weddings? Like in ancient Greece? I'd be curious to see such a list, if you can find one?

RE: The Values-Vote Myth