The thing to allow gay marriage, is just a technical vehicle to help a common law marriage have the same legal rights, as one between male and female persons.
If a married m/f couple has certain rights regarding taxes, why should not m/m or f/f couples living together have that.
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Regarding democracy Skybird is closer than you think, our western 'democracies' are not real ones of course.
How can a common man influence the government, or its executive decisions, if all 'parties' have the same programme and offer no alternative. In the US (and Germany) there is no direct referendum possible.
Apart from that you do not need conspiracies to tell that western nations are not really governed by politicians - changing every 4/5 years how do you plan for your country's future. The undeclared drone war is illegal by international and US law, as is the conduct of aggressive wars and killing civilians as an 'unfortunate side effect'.
Secret services do not follow public or international law, and the constitution they claim to work for, often does not even know about their doings.
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