As that always was one of the technical reasons behind which people, who probably just hated gays, hid.
E.g. in Germany the raison-d’etre for the conept of marriage comes from the constitution. Something along the lines of "the state needs to actively support and protect families. That is why there’s an tax advantage for married couples: to prepare, economically, for children and later enable them to have one person (mostly women, obviously, because people who hate gays often overlap with the “women need to take care of their kids, men don’t” crowd) taking care of said children.
So the shitty argument ran along those lines “gays don’t need to marry, because they can’t have children”. Which always was stupid to begin with, because they couldn’t adopt for that reason, as only married people could adopt 🙄.
But that economic angle is kind of dangerous.
As that always was one of the technical reasons behind which people, who probably just hated gays, hid.
E.g. in Germany the raison-d’etre for the conept of marriage comes from the constitution. Something along the lines of "the state needs to actively support and protect families. That is why there’s an tax advantage for married couples: to prepare, economically, for children and later enable them to have one person (mostly women, obviously, because people who hate gays often overlap with the “women need to take care of their kids, men don’t” crowd) taking care of said children.
So the shitty argument ran along those lines “gays don’t need to marry, because they can’t have children”. Which always was stupid to begin with, because they couldn’t adopt for that reason, as only married people could adopt 🙄.