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"Marriages by the state in general bother me. Marriages are historically a union before God, meant to keep men from running willy nilly through hoardes of nubile women. "
It has nothing to do with control.
I can't believe that in this whole thread, I've yet to see the word "procreation". Marriage is about procreation. The legal status and privaleges bestowed are to make raising children easier. Hence, marrying your sister, with whom you should not have children for biological reasons, is not legal. And most of the arguments _for_ gay marriage involve the impact on children of gay parents, like the partner not being able to procure medical care for the child.
The real question here is, why are people who can't have children (too old, or sterile), or don't want children, endowed the legal privaleges of people will have children? Although I don't agree with gay marriage, I can see why they feel that the current system is unfair.
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A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years.
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