Sorry, inheritance tax is the same for unmarried couples as it is for married couples. All you have to do to avoid probate court is write a will.

There exists special protection for ordinary, married couples because marriage produces benefits to society that can be achieved in no other way. In particular, marriages perpetuate the species, pass along cultural heritage, teach cultural norms, and serve as the vehicle by which we pass along property, status, and title as well as culture. Nobody stops anybody from living together with another, consenting adult in any configuration they like, and what they do in the privacy of their home is their own business, so long as it's legal. It is possible to avoid probate by writing a will, and it is possible to assign one's pension to a beneficiary that is not one's spouse. But there will be, and should be, special protection for the form of union that perpetuates species and culture. Sorry, if that ain't you, you shouldn't get that benefit.

I agree, pasca. But the nation is doomed the way Judah was doomed in the days of Jeremiah. God did move to rescue His people -- and as a consequence, they went into captivity for 70 years and every one of their cities was laid waste. Even when they returned, they were a conquered people in a backwater of the Persian empire, and they never returned to prominence as a nation for another 2000 years. That was the MERCY of God. That was what God "not abandoning His people" looked like in their day. The alternative was, if God had abandoned His people, there would be no Jews today. All we would know of the Jews would be what we dug out of the dust in the Middle East; they'd be an historical curiosity, like the Hittites only less consequential. I do believe the US will receive God's mercy, because so many decent people have been asking Him for it for so long. But I don't think many of us will like what His mercy looks like. I think it's going to look like calamity to us. So I recommend that you draw close to God, and brace yourself.

It continues, "In the manner that you judge, you will be judged." I want sensible readings of the evidence concerning my own behavior; don't you? So it's not violating the law of God in any way to read the research and respond to what it tells us. And what it tells us is that what people call "homosexuality" is actually a family of related, compulsive, sexual disorders, that lead to severe health problems, severe depressive disorders and self-destructive behaviors, several relationship dysfunction, and so forth.

To label your opponent "bigot" (without further evidence) is no sounder an argument than to label your opponent "trash" (without further evidence). So I guess both of you made unsound arguments, and deserve to be ignored.

Ultimately, for the spirits behind the movements, this is true. But among the activists themselves, the homosexual agenda is driven by two, separate forces, one conscious, the other unconscious. The conscious motivator is Marxist ideology. The core activists are aiming for a pure, socialist government along Marxian lines, and they major in turning every social issue -- gender, race, sexual orientation -- into a Marxist theme, where the powerful, evil White Men oppress the powerless and the downtrodden. The unconscious motivator is the gay's inner ache to be validated. They want their inner "I'm abnormal" to shut up. It won't, no matter how many laws and institutions they change, but that's what's driving them. And yes, both gays and Marxists are useful idiots in a wider, spiritual battle that assaults the Kingdom of God and the rule of Christ.

Breitbart was partially right. The news media are driving the same agenda as the progressives in the public education system, the universities, the court system, the entertainment industry, the government, and even the church. Marxists targeted all of these areas of influence back in the 1930s for infiltration, and now they are all corrupted by leftist ideology. It's a pretty good illustration of how to influence a culture over time; it's taken them less than 100 years to turn the US into a Marxist state, although the conversion is not entirely complete yet. It's also an illustration of how good can be corrupted by evil ideology. The morals of the nation are in tatters, thanks to progressive propaganda and dishonest advocacy. Even if we manage to keep them out of total power, the nation is doomed.

The statistics suggest that homosexual men are roughly 3 times more likely to commit a pedophilic act than straight men. To point this out, and to suggest that putting boys into the care of gay parents, coaches, or scout leaders might raise the number of molestations, is not hate speech, it is sound, public advocacy.

"The organizations on the SPLC’s list of hate groups are not there because of their religious beliefs regarding homosexuality and gay marriage, but because they persist in spreading false and ugly propaganda about the gay community..." In other words, if you disagree with SPLC on the subject of, say, the psychopathology of homosexuality, you're a hate group. You just illustrated IsaacClark's point. The example you give is a falsehood; the Family Research Council does not claim that all homosexuals are pedophiles. It says that a higher percentage of gays are pedophiles than straights. That is true; the proportion is that gay men are roughly 3 times more likely to exhibit pedophilia. The evidence is discussed here: http://www.frc.org/get.cfm?i=IS02E3 But apparently, presenting evidence supporting a point to which the SPLC disagrees constitutes "hate speech." I rest my case.

But beneath that, it's actually about gays feeling validated by society. They have this inner ache that says "I'm not normal." They think that if they could just get society at large to treat them as though they were perfectly ordinary and normal, that ache would go away. So we're subjected to propaganda and grossly dishonest activism, misinformation and shaming, to bend society into a shape that agrees with them that they are perfectly normal and ordinary. But the bending will never stop, because the ache does not come from society, it comes from within themselves. So what will be next? It will become a crime to BELIEVE that homosexuality is abnormal in any way. And since that won't end the ache, either, it will then become a CAPITAL crime. And that won't end the ache, so... It will never end until we all come to our senses and tell them to address the problem where it actually exists -- within themselves.