But for churches it’s a justified privilege, they have a lot of expenses after all
The bribes and legal expenses to defend pedophiles in court don’t pay themselves
The fight for gay marriage was/is about the benefits afforded by the state to legally married couples.
Which is absolutely privilege because single people don’t get those same tax breaks.
Depending on your situation, being married could actually mean you pay more in taxes.
My wife and I pay more taxes because we are married without children. If we were not married and filed as singles, our tax burden would be much less. But IDK really, mostly because I enjoy living in a working society and that means paying taxes.
I’m certainly not a tax expert, but I think you can both file separately. That’s what my ex and I did back when we were married.
Our wages are not really equal and when we tried to separate it all to file separately, any benefit only helps one of us at the expense of the other.
All tax benefits, from marriage tax deductions to corporate tax elimination, is the government picking and choosing which behaviors it wants to encourage.
That’s why conservatives didn’t want gay people to get married because they saw it as government endorsement of their behavior, and not the government recognizing equal rights.
Public equality and public liberty are the responsibility and purview of government. If they are not, we can’t really have government by consent. Instead we have hegemony in which the lower strata are governed by force.
Time for a sham marriage ʕ ͡° ʖ̯ ͡°ʔ
same sex marriage,same privileges as hetro couples…not that hard.
I’ve never heard anyone saying it’s a privilege, just that it’s ‘wrong’ or ‘against god’ or whatever
You haven’t been paying attention, then, or you’ve been lucky. That equal rights are extra privileges is common rhetoric amongst bigots.
Corollary: If you’re allowed to be gay, I’m a victim.
Jordan is a goddamn national treasure
Agreed. I truly love his work.
Yep. I’ve even heard people say things like “Gay people have the same rights as straight people. A gay man has the same right to marry a woman as a straight man. So it’s not discrimination”. It’s mind boggling stupid and they know it.
It’s commonly viewed as some kind of extra privilege. Listen to this lady repeat what she’s heard and then get confused.
mostly because its such a bad argument even the idiots realize it can’t be defended.
In the aughts George W. Bush signed an executive order instructing the IRS not to enforce the restrictions on churches regarding political speech non-profits are not supposed to endorse parties or specific candidates, though they can talk about issues).
After that dozens of right-wing political action committees and activism organizations redefined themselves as churches, what are now called parachurch organizations that are tax-free and political.
So yes, it is already a laundering business taking advantage of Christian nationalist leadership who believes in loyalty over principle.
they call it privilege because “straight people aren’t legally protected” which is fundamentally not true in the context of marriage, because that’s what it’s for.
In most other cases it’s reactionary, not precautionary. If straight rights were being oppressed, then sure you could fucking protect them all you want. They’re not though.
