The 6 Pack Economist

I personally don’t care.  On my list of candidate positions it is just above if we agree on our choice of cereal.  Both sides on this issue really take it too far in the ramifications of either having gay marriage or not having gay marriage.  The pro-gay marriage side would have you believe that it is on the same level as forcing blacks to use certain water fountains or blocking the right to vote.  The anti-gay marriage side would have you believe that the nuclear family will instantly break apart and die because Tim and Tom or Jane and Joan got married.  For the pro-gay side lets be serious, you can do everything an actual married couple could do except have some of the legal protections from the state.  For the anti-gay side the no-fault divorce and Hollywood has already made a mockery of marriage.

Now that I have given my opinion, let us go into some little tidbits of things I thought about pertaining to this issue.  I like to look at things to find out the hidden consequences or things that most people did not think to include in their equations.

Why did government get involved with marriage to begin with?
The government or at least the United States Federal government did not really care who was married till the 1930s.  For those that took a history course the reason they started caring in the 1930s who was married to who was that social security benefits were started then.  Once the government started  paying people they begin to want to have a say in what is going on (this is a hint to anyone taking government money).  In the 1930s gay still meant that the person was just happy.  It was not really even considered that marriage was anything but a man and a woman (or women).

Why did government give benefits to being married?
There are a few reasons for this but the biggest is that hetero sexual marriage has a tendency to produce little future tax payers.  In addition the best way to ensure that the little taxpayers truly grow up to be taxpayers and not little criminals is to try and keep the parents in the same house.  Please don’t comment that there is no proof that kids grow up better in a house with mother and father I don’t care about your lies.

Is there any downside for gays and gay marriage?
Why yes there certainly is.  Although it is would not be noticeable for about three generations.  Let us assume that being gay is genetic (or at the very least people genetic predisposed to be gay).  In addition once gay marriage is legally recognized it will become social acceptable to be openly gay.  I would say it is acceptable now, but I guess it not true everywhere.  Here comes the downside.  When people stop hiding that they are gay and stop marrying heterosexuals the primary mechanism for the transfer of the “gay-gene” will be halted.  Remember that so many of us are unplanned pregnancy, and in a gay relationship there just is not an unplanned pregnancy.

I think we should all think about what the state of home decorating will be in 60 years.  Do we really want that?