Hey , last night clearly didn ' t work out , but I ' m going to be available for a couple hours now <| sep |> Ok , ruin other people ' s lives calm down . People in civil Unions get tax benefits , sorry to burst your bubble . So immediately there ' s a section of people who oppose the term marriage as its stupid and doesn ' t mean anything . They don ' t receive the federal marriage benefits tax benefits because those exist for the sole purpose of encouraging marriage that leads to procreation , as our government wants to guarantee future generations . Gay couples , who are awesome by the way , can ' t do that . And those proponents of same sex marriage pretty much agree that those tax laws are pretty outdated , and you ' ll find many of the same people who fight gay marriage fighting those same tax laws And again , I don ' t know what the churches stance is on marrying atheist . Doesn ' t mean the church should be forced to do something against their religious beliefsJust because the government has gotten involved with something in the past doesn ' t suddenly make it moral to do so . And you can ' t say well we let it happen then , Why not now because there have been people fighting to keep the gov out of state issues for years now , and making it about gays doesn ' t change that . While you might not find a reason to oppose gay marriage that is moral . That doesn ' t make it so . Labeling an entire group homophobic or immoral because you don ' t agree with them doesn ' t solve anything and misrepresents the issue .