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State marriage contracts are quite clearly between two people. So, no laws are being expanded, only access to such laws. Plural marriages aren't being denied anything - nor or people who want to marry their dog - since all existing marriage contracts are only between two people.
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The aggression is already in place, the state has an incentive to promote stable family units. They will continue to do so, if you want to advocate that the state stop doing such things, by all means go ahead. But, there is no mutual exclusivity to the promotion of abolition of state sponsored marriage and promotion of gays gaining equal access to state
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That is just pure insanity. You can't deny equality under the law because you are generally against the state. I can make the same argument about public schooling or access to roads, but in the end it is an argument for segregation. At some point reality must set in, and principles have to be ordered. Liberty and equality under the law are much
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Gays aren't lobbying for special or extraordinary priviliges. They are simply advocating for access to already existing and established laws provided by the state to enhance the nuclear family. This is why you are an advocate for segregation, and it makes the op's dad wrong as well. You can't decide retroactively, that state interference
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The problem with your argument is that gay people can form families. Not only through adoption, but also through invetro and heterosexual sex. The state doesn't get to define what a marriage is, nor does it get to define what a family is. Now, it would be different if the state were conferring breeding licenses. Then your argument has some validity
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Central banks are generally impotent in creating inflation in a debt-deflation environment. Banks aren't lending because they are capital impaired and they don't have qualified borrowers. If anything has been proven in this recession, it has to be that the money multiplier is total bunk. Bank reserves, in and of themselves, simply do not create
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In a fiat based fractional reserve system with a central bank, banks don't need new assets to create new money. All they need are two conditions, solvency and qualified borrowers. Assets and liabilities are merely bookeeping entries between the fed and member banks.