Q about arguments for God's existence.

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No.

Then how can it not be the governments business defining what marriage is?
Do you propose that decisions about taxes should be made elsewhere? And if so where??

Well, the whole idea of giving a married person a tax advantage over a single person seems unfair to me. Why because you're married should you have a tax advantage? When the government started doing this people had to start getting a legal document issued by the government, stating that they married. Before that people didn't need to have the government sanction their marriage. My wife and I are not married because the government says so, but because we committed ourselves and our lives to each other. I envision replacing the government's version of marriage with a civil union. If two individuals want to share their lives and resources and have children they can establish a legal contract which formalizes the agreement and protects the children and each other. This contract would be recognized by the government and, if they want to apply certain tax advantages, they would be based on that contract. If the individuals don't want to be married, they don't have to. If two people want to be married and, for some reason, don't care about the tax benefits they can make a personal verbal marriage agreement to each other. It's not the role of the government to determine whether or not they are married. As a witness to my faith, I want to clarify that I don't believe in homosexual sexual relations, in any case, or heterosexual sexual relations outside of marriage. I do acknowledge that I live in a world where everybody doesn't share my beliefs and we all should be treated equally and fairly under the law and by each other..