"Interesting . What you call a fine for non-compliance , I call a benefit FOR compliance . There are lots of examples of laws designed to promote social changes . Tax codes that favor married couples is but one example . Another would be IRAs . Uncle Sam rewards people for saving money by deferring taxes on that money . It rewards home owners with deductions for mortgage interest . I do n't see rewarding hetero marriage as being any different . The government is promoting hetero marriage ."
"Well , I do understand that you call it a benefit for compliance , but my argument was that a benefit for compliance is the same thing as a fine for non-compliance and that in reality , the government is simply promoting one lifestyle over another . That is equivalent to destroying freedom . I do understand that the government rewards people for taking certain actions . IRA 's are an example , yes , promoting investment in an IRA does destroy freedom in a sense . But there is at least a debatable reason behind the government using taxpayer money to reward IRA investers . The government wants people to have money in their old age so that they will be happier in the long run . But when the government is promoting heterosexual marriage , it is n't because promoting heterosexual marriage over homosexual marriage is a good thing , and it is n't because heterosexual couples deserve more money or more benefits than same-sex couples . It is because the majority is willing to use religious beliefs as a reason to give themselves more benefits under the law , as a reason to hurt others while benefiting themselves , as a reason to promote their own religoius beliefs over someone else 's ."
"I call a benefit FOR compliance"
"my argument was that a benefit for compliance is the same thing as a fine for non-compliance"