http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_2474.shtmlWho would have thought that the successful union of a spermatozoa and an ovum would be a tax-paying citizen's certification of citizenship.
The highest court of the state of Maryland has recently joined New York and Washington state in ruling that because same-gendered people can't procreate they cannot be married in the same way that opposite-gendered people can.
Reading between the lines, it seems straight people who have the corresponding slot A and tab B are automatically entitled to the approximately 1,400 Federal and state benefits that accrue with state-sponsored marriage.
I always thought that paying taxes made one a citizen.
Odd, that even though I have no children, I'm still required to pay school taxes. Additionally, I pay a sales tax to help pay for municipal structures such as sports arenas that I will never use, my gasoline taxes are used to pave roads which I'll never drive on, and my library taxes will pay for books which I'll never read.
And now -- at least in Maryland, New York and Washington -- I have to pony up with a wife and child in order to be a REAL citizen? Paying taxes isn't enough?
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As the balance scale of Lady Justice is replaced with a cudgel, and her blindfold exchanged with binoculars it would do for us all, gay or straight, to reassess just what makes a civil society.
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