This weekend I was watching Larry King and the guest was Suze Orman. This is the only format that I can really handle watching Suze, as without a moderator her presentation is downright annoying. On her CNBC show she looks right into the camera and points her finger and yells at her viewers, which gives me flashbacks of my fourth grade teacher Mrs. Hayes, and I have to change the channel as fast as I can.
Larry asked Suze a question about estate taxes and she replied, “If I die, my life partner KT would only receive 2 million dollars and anything above that would be subject to estate taxes.” Life partner, I listened very closely and then heard Suze make reference to the life partner as “her” after which I screamed out in horror to my wife, “Suze Orman is Gay!” I guess I should not be surprised by such things after everything I have witnessed in my 43 years on this earth, but who would have thought this about Suze Orman?
OK, she is gay and that probably makes no difference to any of us, right? Wrong. Celebrities that come out of the closet almost always do so with an agenda. Suze Orman seemed to be driving at the idea that ‘gay partners’ should enjoy the same estate tax and financial benefits as married couples. A married couple does pay less in estate taxes than a gay couple. First, a married individual can inherit an unlimited amount of assets upon the death of a spouse without any estate taxes. As a result, there is a distinct advantage to legally being married when dealing with estate tax issues. It is true, that upon the death of the second spouse, the assets are subject to estate taxes. The married couple, however, can use the combination of two separate living trusts to shelter far more from estate taxes than the unmarried gay couple.
Apparently, Orman agrees with this as I found this comment online:
“Financial guru and best-selling author Suze Orman says she wishes she could marry her partner Kathy Travis, partly because it would save them both a lot of money.” Source: 365Gay.com
Gay couples do not enjoy survivorship benefits from Social Security or most spousal benefits offered by employers. This is the reason gays continue to push so hard for the concept of gay marriage or civil unions. Suze Orman may have come out of the closet simply because she wants to just stop hiding a secret, but it is more likely that she is going to become another advocate for gay rights like Rosie O’Donnell.
As Christians, we have seen our culture slowly lose its way, we must take a stand on this issue. Marriage is between a man and a woman and this has to be a non-negotiable part of the foundation of America’s values. I truly believe that this is a last stand. If we lose on this I don’t see much hope for any moral foundation in the future of this country.
Why Gay Marriage Would Be Harmful
Agree or disagree, click on comments below. Do you as a Christian support the idea of civil unions or any other similar arrangement for gays?
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Posted by: | April 01, 2009 at 09:25 AM
It is simply put that legalizing same sex marriage would be authenticating perversion. If this is made legal, all forms of perversion will make a stand for their right of perverted behavior. Do you want incest, child molestation, rape, murder, made legal. We already have the murder of BABIES in the womb of a mother as a legal genocidal way of eliminating a night of ilicit sexual behavior. It is very much in the interest of all people to reconsider the ramifications for not standing up the such people groups as the ACLU. May Jehovah Bless each person and family that prays and stands for moral behavior. Thank you
Posted by: David | March 18, 2009 at 11:37 PM
I'm attracted to religion because it teaches us to be non-judgemental. I find this post and the linked previous article to be quite judgemental. I think children raised by homosexual parents in a loving relationship would have a better foundation for becoming less judgemental adults--and that is what our country really needs.
Posted by: jessa burdett | September 13, 2008 at 12:19 PM