typical bs

My husband and I are REALLY homosexual and we have two children. I guess it really does apply. Again, you are a naive fool.

Michael Bordelon as it says above " with homosexual marriage, there will never be any children produced from the union" . if you have kids, i'm pretty sure they didnt come from your union with your husband.

Michael S. Reed No, two men or women cannot, by themselves, make their own children. But that's what surrogacy (for men) or sperm banks (for women) are for. Or, you know, we could try something novel. Why not let these couples who cannot bear children, I don't know, adopt? There are how many hundreds of thousands of children in foster care all across this country? Same-sex couples could provide them a loving home. That can also fit into Baton Rouge From My Views's words about the tax code. Once these couples have children legally bound to them one way or the other (adoption or childbirth), the tax code reinforces the concept of marriage that defines it as a child-rearing unit. Once the couple is married, their assets are pooled together legally to allow them to better take care of the child.

However. What BRFMV fails to realize is that there are married couples, both gay and straight, that do not want and will never have children. In that, their logic fails.

There are many legalities to marriage aside from tax credits. I suggest you research them all before spouting this drivel.

What marriage penalty are you referring to?

In some cases, there is a penalty; in others, there is a benefit. It depends on the relative incomes of the two individuals.

If one spouse is a stay-at-home spouse earning little or no income, then filing jointly definitely saves money. The second spouse would pay no federal income tax if he/she filed separately; by filing jointly, their combined income - which is basically the same as the "breadwinner's" income - falls into the more generous "joint" brackets.

When two spouses earn good incomes, there can be a penalty to filing jointly because the combined income may push some of the income into a higher tax bracket, whereas the two separate single incomes would not reach that bracket by themselves. That's when the "penalty" kicks in.

Kevin Morgan - Seems to me the penalty would be more likely to apply in this case, since gays statistically are better educated and hence have higher paying jobs; they also don't have all those convenient little tax-deductions running around . . .