Children were the reason marriage was invented; The anticipation of children being fatherless or motherless was something a tribe or community could not tolerate. They watched and saw enough miscreants created this way that the institution of marriage was invented as a remedy for the fatherless/motherless home.
Enter Obergefell which fundamentally reversed that contractual enjoyment children used to have.
As to mdk's assertion that "if something doesn't exist then it cannot be an implicit part of a contract", let me say this, children not being born yet, but anticipated by the society that sets up marriage parameters is the same as profits not yet in existence from a contract signed between budding business partners. Those profits anticipated are in fact part of that contract. So are children anticipated to come statistically from marriage.
It is that very anticipation and not wanting a tribe full of miscreants that led states to incentivize marriage with benefits in the first place. Now they are "legally" (not) required to incentivize THE EXACT OPPOSITE OF THE ORIGINAL INTENT OF THE CREATION OF THE MARRIAGE CONTRACT.
Thanks to five unelected lawyers in DC in 2015.
they're angry deplorable bigots. they can't help it.
I agree. People who hate children and their right to both a mother and father from any marriage contract really are deplorable.
Said the single mother whose house doesn't have a father. If you spent half as much time worrying about my marriage perhaps you could find a husband. After all, children have a right to a mother and father...unless it's yours.
Is my marital status affecting the substance of my points? No. So lose the ad hominem and stick to the points.
...vv and refrain from obvious attempts at derailing the topic with a strawman...
Is my marital status affecting the substance of my points? No. So lose the ad hominem and stick to the points
It sure does. You seem so concerned about the happening in households of gays, but you get all pissy when the microscope gets pointed back. Hypocritical busybodies never like having the standards they set for others apply to themselves.
The discussion is about marriage laws. Not who is or isn't married and for what reasons. If I was a widower or a widow, would your comments be allowed?