Atheists, do you support same-sex marriage?

[Longhorn]

Me too. Apologies to Tristan but I just had to sort it out.

oh thank goodness. Somebody buy Stimbo a beer for that!

[Cyberman]

And slip a treble vodka in it! Then take the beer out..!

[Brakeman]

A funny thing. When marriage became vogue, it was basically a registration of ownership of a particular woman.
That makes a lesbian/gay marriage quite a problem because who owns who?

[FriendlyNeighborhoodAtheist]

Bi african american/mexican man here. I support same-sex marriage.

[Metis]

A funny thing. When marriage became vogue, it was basically a registration of ownership of a particular woman.
That makes a lesbian/gay marriage quite a problem because who owns who?

Oh...There are ways Most of the ones I'm thinking about involving black leather and handcuffs.

[das_atheist]

So it sounds like the way the marriage taxes are setup encourage one person to work and one person to stay at home.

In a way, yes.  But a tax break is not the same as an income, so one may prefer to have both people work.

Basically, with federal U.S. income tax, if you are married, you may file your taxes jointly, and then the total income is considered to be income earned by two people instead of one.  You can then get a break on your taxes, if one works and the other does not, because each will effectively be considered as earning half of the total income, and the greater the income, the higher percentage of tax that you pay.  So, if you earn $100k per year and your spouse earns nothing, instead of you being taxed at the $100k rate, you will both be taxed at the $50k rate.  This is a bit of an oversimplification, but gives the right general idea for most cases.  Different kinds of income are taxed differently; if you want a full, complete, detailed look, visit the IRS web site and look at form 1040 and the instructions for it to start, and then you would need to look at other things for some of the minutia about how different sources of income are taxed.

Basically, the different sources of income being taxed differently is a con that the rich have put in place in order to pay less in taxes; Warren Buffett famously pays a lower percentage in taxes than his secretary.  To his credit, Buffett does not approve of this.  But this is a digression from the issue of marriage and its impact on taxes (which is only one of many things affected by marriage).

Here's a good chart that breaks down the difference in taxing for married people and single people. Married people can file jointly or separately, but they can't file as single. It gets interesting(unfair) in the 25% and 28% tax rate. http://www.bankrate.com/finance/taxes/tax-brackets.aspx

[Vincent]

yes. Always and forever. 
Quite frankly I don't think there's a logical reason NOT to support it.

[Redbeard The Pink]

Personally, I don't fuck dudes, but my wife and I support gay marriage wholeheartedly. Also, your relative is repeating lies. Maybe without realizing they're lies, but...it's still happening. Most Americans support gay marriage, and the non-religious support it at a much higher rate than Abrahamic believers.

[Shinagami]

No I don't but it's not something I care enough about to fight.

[c172]

If a misspelled word causes you that much discomfort, you should probably avoid the Internet entirely.  Especially forums and other such nonprofessional writings.  You will certainly see many more misspellings if you persist in using the Internet.

I know, I know...

I'm surprised you haven't put me on ignore yet. As I get older, my spelling gets tons worse! Their/they're/there type problems, but mistakes that look like autocorrect failures, but can't be since I am on a PC.