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Everhard gets to her real point in the second quote; That homosexuality is simply unnatural, which she and her ilk believe inoculates these ridiculous predictions from common sense analysis. It only works with like-minded bigots when preaching feel-good-about-being-superior shtick to an ever shrinking choir, even in Georgia.
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"If you're going to this much trouble to gain the system for underserved benefits, why complicate 'yall's' lie and relationships further by falsely claiming to be gay when you're actually straight?"
Fraud is even easier when you conform to the majority.
I know several people who are married only to get the benefits. I was even preparing to marry a girl so she could stay in the U.S. (she found another way).
There is nothing "sacred" or "holy" about marriage. There never was.
Straight people are marrying each other right NOW for all sorts of vaguely fraudulent reasons, and have been doing so for ages. Elderly straight people often marry to get health or pension benefits. (Or sometimes enter into Domestic Partnerships in WA instead of marriage so they don't lose benefits... depends on their benefit package.) When I was in the military, people would get married sometimes just for the better on-base housing and other bennies. Women have for centuries married men they didn't like just to have the financial security to raise their kids. Foreigners marry Americans to get citizenship. Dan even married one of his staffers years ago, just to prove a point. The list goes on.
If straights can marry each other for all these reasons, why would they instead want to fake-marry someone of the same sex?
Everhart is a bigot, and grasping at straws.
Does he get to marry the little boys he adopted?
Is he a closet bigamist?
So yeah. Straight people do it all the time...
Maybe she just got done watching "I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry" ...
Well, I'll just leave this here.
And I have a bro who needs insurance. So I decide to fraudulently gay-marry him just so I can carry him on my employer-provided policy.
Then I meet the woman of my dreams and want to straight-marry her. But first I need to convince her that I'm really straight, and my gay-marriage with my bro is just a fraud for insurance purposes.
Then I have to I have to divorce my best bud. But I'm in a m in a community property state. The dude is now entitled to half my assets. And possibly alimony. And in the meantime, he's gone crazy with his credit card and run up $30,000 worth of high-interest debt, and I'm legally responsible for half of it.
But, you know, my bff has had health insurance in the meantime. So I was glad to do it.
So, yeah, fraud marriages by straight people to "take advantage" of the system: going on for decades, if not more.
If we want to add just dishonestly then, I have to admit, that prize goes to gay men marrying women in order to convince others (and sometimes themselves) they are aren't gay.
So no matter how many straight people might enter into same sex marriages for fraudulent and dishonest reasons, those numbers will never come close to those who enter in to opposite sex marriages for fraudulent or dishonest reasons.
So to follow Everhart's illogical line of reasoning the only solution is to ban ALL marriage.
This is perhaps the one place where I can stand a THINK OF THE CHILDREN argument. As in, Dear Mr/Mrs Bigot, Let the Ls and the Gs marry each other and then they WON'T marry YOUR (fine upstanding) heterosexual sons and daughters. While there are some sufficiently zealous sorts who view conversion through marriage as a path to sainthood, most don't want what looks icky to them anywhere near.
I could almost see campaign pieces along such a line, using salt-of-the-earth fiftyish/sixtyish types to describe how it was when their child's spouse came out as L or G. There are so many possible tones that could take.