The question I find myself asking in regards to politics, laws, policies, and regulations these days, especially in terms of economics, isn't who will benefit but who will benefit the most. What does it matter if a change in laws will help small businesses when it will help the large corporations even more? Likewise, the question isn't who will lose out but who will lose the most.
This is also the question I have in regards to, say, gay marriage. Who will benefit the most from institutionalizing gay marriage? Probably the divorce attorneys and conservative politicians who can split the gay vote. As I've heard, it was a debate in the gay community, whether or not legalized marriage was even a good goal to strive for, even if there seems to be little debate now.
The kicker is that what's good for the party isn't good for the politician. Legalizing gay marriage probably won't lose the party many voters (where would they turn? to the liberals?), but it could definitely lose a politician some votes.
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i'm curious what you heard about the debate among gays. i never came across anyone who was against gay marriage, not that it really ever brought the subject up, but i can't even really think of a point of a view a gay person would take that would be anti-marriage (at least, without being unreasonable or silly, there are infinite amounts of those everywhere! (and i'd never move the goalposts, of course!)).
mainly i don't see the legalisation of gay marriage as anything particularly triumphant because civil unions have existed for ages, but as far as i can tell any argument against legalising gay marriage is essentially just discrimination, and even though there might be a rational argument out there, the only ones i've heard have been made solely on religious grounds.
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