Marriage has clearly lost all value.
It should be abolished as a legal-binding contract.
Alba gu bràth

For similar reasons I thought gay marriage was odd.
I don't see any reason to legally get married for the same reasons as the Rammstein song.
If I am your friend, then I am and that's it. Just the same, I'm not going to "cheat" on anyone who is my friend if I say so.
Getting legally married is caused by something like anxiety that makes little sense. You can't legally make someone like you and be loyal to you, so marriage will only work when it's not needed, because people are loyal. It will never work on people who aren't loyal.
It kinda makes me laugh when I think about it.

Those are snap shots in time.
Over the entire marriage, this source says 91% of married couples have children. I've seen different stats and I can do more research on it tomorrow.
It is difficult to say because the Census only is a snapshot in time and everyone who did not have kids during the last Census could all have kids by now. Last I knew it was about 9% of married couples did not have kids.
https://www.quora.com/What-percent-of-American-married-couples-never-have-kids
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95% of married couples have biological children together.
What is your source for that statistic?
This is from 2013:
Since 1970, the portion of U.S. households that include families with two married parents and children fell by half, from 40 percent to 20 percent last year, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
While married couples with children were the majority decades ago, now nearly 57 percent of U.S. households are childless. In 2012, about 29 percent included childless married couples and nearly 28 percent included people living alone.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-families-idUSBRE97Q0TJ20130827
This is from last year:
In 1960, married-couple families made up 75 percent of all U.S. households, and 44 percent of these families had children.
By 1980, a significant shift in the composition of family households was underway. Married-couple families made up only 61 percent of all households, and the share with children dropped to 31 percent. The share of single-parent families nearly doubled from 4 percent to 7 percent of all households, while the share of married-couple families without children remained about the same at 30 percent.
By 2017, married-couple families accounted for less than half of all households, and only about one-fifth (19 percent) of households were married couples with children. The share of married-couple families without children also declined slightly to 28 percent between 1980 and 2010, but increased to 30 percent between 2010 and 2017—almost back to the 1960 level of 31 percent.
https://www.prb.org/u-s-household-composition-shifts-as-the-population-grows-older-more-young-adults-live-with-parents/

So governments are changing the ancient tradition called marriage so that me and my gardener can take advantages of loopholes and get government benefits?
Your Mexican Gardner? LoL!
Anyways… it's not a loop hole. They are technically married and love each other and vow to be to death to them part. There are marriages where one of the spouses sleeps on the sofa or the basement or probably not even in the same city with the person they are married to..some married couples are swingers. That is technically cheater, but who's keeping score when all adults consent?
Some married couples can't have children which is basically the same thing as not having children.
It's not a loop hole okay?

So governments are changing the ancient tradition called marriage so that me and my gardener can take advantages of loopholes and get government benefits?
Marriage was never designed so two buddies can scam the system.
Give single people the same rights as married people and do away with the whole farce!
The purpose of marriage is to build a foundation for a couple and their children, make fathers responsible for their children, and ensure inheritance rights. Again, 95% of married couples have biological children together.
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I read it hours ago. It's not a fraud. Those couples are just being honest about the nature of their marriage. It's not a fraud. They were getting legally married.

Read about the fraud in the OP and get back to me. Maybe I'll marry my Mexican gardener so he can become a citizen.
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Just because gay marriage isn't
your thing
, doesn't mean that gay marriage shouldn't exist.

I bow to no one on the fact that my same-sex union with my partner is as valid as that of any male/female couple.
But I do not try and manipulate the law and claim that my union is identical to that of a heterosexual couple. It's a fact that about 95% of married heterosexual couples have biological children together. It's also a fact that 0% of homosexual couples have biological children together.
Sameness does not equal equality.
This is why I have opposed gay marriage from the beginning.
I also like to call it "fey marriage" because I've noticed that only the weakest and most unmasculine gay males seems to be taking advantage of this farce.
It's also important to note that in jurisdictions where the government has tried to institute this charade, only 3% or less of adult homosexuals have taken the bait. Most gay couples have no interest in marriage.
What has been created is fully showcased in the OP. Two people who have no interest in being a couple and starting a family are just taking advantage of this as a loophole for tax advantages, to get government benefits, et al.
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These people are crazy and neurotic liars and control freaks.
If you truly love someone be it a friend of sexual partner, you do not need any other validation. It just IS and the love bonds you together. You do not need to announce it or make it legal.
Getting married legally is fake and insecure. I do not need a legal contract for my best friend. I have known them for decades and there is no doubt.
I love the German band Rammstein and their song Du Hast is about this issue.
Du Hast means "You have" and it also means "You hate" in German depending on how you use it.
The song is about a guy saying he will not get married because it is forcing him to make vows. He already loves the woman, so why is she making him get married. So, he is saying "You already have me" but you must "hate me" at the same time. So, he will never swear allegiance to her.
No one has to swear to be Platonic friends or any kind of friends because friends to no do that to friends.
So, these people are liars.

I’m engaged to my right hand.
Ho Ho Ho

This reminds me of my first love. The only difference is when I ask her to marry me she asked who I was and never talked to me again. But the rest is identical

One of many reasons why the world need a “reset button”
Ho Ho Ho

Ms. Guercio and Ms. Purificato wanted to get married because they wanted to be legally and socially recognized as a family.
They want to be recognized as a family when in fact they are not and the entire thing is fraudulent?
Fucking nuts.
Keep on smiling!

East Islip, N.Y.
east islip used to be home to one of the most baddest assed demoltion derbys on earth. now it's involved in this freak show.

Well said, PC!
MAGA! FAFO! Schrodinger's Cat walks into a bar, and doesn't. Dumbocraps: evil people who celebrate murder.

One more reason why same-sex marriage is a fraud. Marriage is designed for reproduction and child rearing. Any other use is just manipulating legal loopholes for benefits which single people are denied.
Yeah I'm with Lilith on this one. Relax, Caveman. Why don't you just tell your boyfriend that you don't want to be monogamous with him? Jeesh

So you were gonna be his beard?
That's very common old school that a gay man and a lesbian (or a straight female friend) would marry as a cover to succeed in business. Even now the world is very homophobic and most gays and lesbians are closeted at work.
It's still a manipulation of the law though.
*I'm also able to be with my sweetheart. Fuck the government.
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Well, yeah?
One of my besties in high school made a promise with me that we'd get married for all the benefits if we were still single by the time we were 30.
I ended up getting married at 23, and same-sex marriage was legalized so he was able to marry his sweetheart (he's gay).
So, it never happened, but I understand the concept.

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child rearing.

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One more reason why same-sex marriage is a fraud. Marriage is designed for reproduction and child rearing. Any other use is just manipulating legal loopholes for benefits which single people are denied.
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