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Originally Posted by UGAalum94
I don't think anyone believes people should marry for health benefits or tax breaks, so why would they be a good reason to perpetuate the institution?
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My experience tells me that some (certainly not all) couples do indeed chose to marry rather than simply live together precisely for reasons such as these.
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Originally Posted by sigmadiva
Don't most of us operate that way? [Not being interested in any opinions that don't match our own]
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The close-minded certainly do. I try not to.
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Originally Posted by sigmadiva
So, Sen, let me ask you - would you as a Black gay man find the issue of gay marriage more compelling if it is compared to the Holocaust that Jews experienced?
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You do know, don't you, that thousands of German homosexuals were also sent to the concentration camps and to German jails? Many were forcibly castrated, used for hormone experiments and/or killed. They had to wear pink triangles instead of (or in addition to) the yellow Star of David as a badge.
After the liberation of the concentration camps, the German goverment often re-imprisoned those gay prisoners; some remained imprisoned for years after being "liberated," all because they had been convicted of being gay, which the Nazi government had made a felony.