Must be Non Sequiter Day at the HabitableZone.

Assuming your message is not misplaced, you must be talking about the interaction between the legal status of marriage and the category of married taxpayers and joint returns. Valid point. The sole material interest anybody has in the definition of marriage is its tax implications.

Just as I favored the radical notion of getting the government out of the marriage business, I'd be fine with eliminating the distinction of married versus single for tax purposes. Despite the rightwing jingoism, absolutely nobody likes our current tax code, "not even" Liberals; and everybody, including IRS bureaucrats themselves, think the tax code is too complicated. If rationalizing the marriage laws also leads to rationalizing the tax code, hell yes!