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Originally Posted by KSig RC
That's fair - it seemed you were being a bit more . . . I guess confrontational (or perhaps presumptive) but that might be me misunderstanding posts on a message board.
What's the simplest answer to allowing homosexuals equal opportunity to participate in marriages, then?
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Yep, like I said my fault because I should of just jumped off the sideline and asked my question.
My opinion.
1) Law on the books
2) Statistics of Openly Gay married couples in positions of influence both in Civilian and Federal occupations
3) Median income of marital couples as compared to overall median income.
4) Health care percentage in relations to married hetero as compared to married homosexuals. (Are they dropping the ball when it comes to maintaining a standard of health that would be afforded and equivalent to the somebody on their same social/financial level.)
Those are my simple indicators because if they have it right on 1, but wrong in 2 and 3, I have to ask what laws (written and unwritten) do they have that prevent upward mobility and enjoying a median cost of living, or discourages marriage at all.(Which is why I brought up the 15th Amendment that gave Blacks the right to vote, but states had laws that made it near impossible for Blacks to assert those rights)
I will give though that they having the laws on the books first allow those on the outside to see what they have right, and what they have wrong..and hope upon hope that when applied here we do not make those same mistakes thus not being behind.
For example, without recognized marriage on the books, if America is able to provide a better outlook on 2,3,4 but don't have 1...are they really ahead of America?