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There is nothing anyone can say that WILL sway your position. You don't think people will try to take advantage of the situation. Well, average people WON'T ... But there is a large group of people who WILL ... here are the benefits to someone getting (by government sanction) married...

1. Surviving spouses pay ZERO inheritance tax.
2. Surviving spouses get Social Security.
3. They get retirement benefits from corporations, which are paid for buy the corporation's customers, as all expenses are.

So you would deny these rights to honest people living in committed homosexual relationships simply because SOME individuals posing as gays would take advantage of it?

If that is your reasoning, then NOBODY should be able to get married, because sham weddings are already common. And while we're at it, we should cancel all insurance policies because some people commit insurance fraud.

There's really no differrence in logic between these preposterous propositions and your current stance. You DO NOT deny people rights simply bcause some people will abuse those rights.