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Originally posted by sgtclub
For the same reason the government gives property holders a tax break on their interest payments. Net/net, it is good public policy.
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What exactly is a net/net? I've never understood the expression.
That said, it's easy to win the heterosexual-marriage-only argument if you narrowly define the purposes of recognizing marriage to be purely procreative. Last time I checked, the rights and obligations of married persons to each other went well beyond that and, given rape laws, perhaps even are expressly not that.
