RE: Marriage discrimination struck down in Arkansas.
May 9, 2014 at 11:37 pm
(This post was last modified: May 9, 2014 at 11:51 pm by Heywood.)
(May 9, 2014 at 11:30 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: Do you think that heterosexual couples who have no intention on having children should be incentivized?
The union of young child bearing couples has more value to a society/population than the union of a couple who are past their child bearing years. A thought experiment is all that is needed to prove this. Imagine if all couples were transformed into old couples who are past their child bearing years.....it would be a catastrophe. Now imagine if all couples were transformed into younger couples within their child bearing years....society/population wouldn't miss a beat.
The state may want to incentivize the union of young couples and not incentivize the union of old. A rational argument can be made to ban old people marriage. This might not be a good thing to do....but that is besides to point. The action has a rational basis for it. The judge claimed there was no rational reason to ban gay marriage....which is silly...rational reasons are a dime a dozen.
