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March 08, 2004
Backbiting
Just another backbiting moment with regard to gay marriage. I still say it's mostly about money and social overreach. Here's an intersting tidbit from Hit & Run.
Or take the issue of estate taxes. Right now, a wealthy 80-year-old widow can leave all of her property tax-free to a 20-year-old boy toy if she marries him a month before her death. If the same widow wills her property to, say, her niece who has been living with her and providing constant care and companionship for 10 years, the niece will have to pay a huge estate tax. Where is the justice in that?
On the positive side, perhaps the rage over gay marriage, like that of feminism and contraception, will prompt us to review what it is we actually believe about marriage - and how consistently (or not) our system of laws treats marrieds. I welcome that.
Posted by mbowen at March 8, 2004 09:47 AM
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My mom made a very similar point to this, and I will respond to you as I did to her -- that very interesting, but, alas, completely irrelevant and just another way of you trying to justify why you just don't like the idea of gay marriage. This is the equivalent of saying, "And another thing!"
Posted by: TLL at March 8, 2004 12:35 PM