Lawmakers Consider Preventing ALL Marriage In Oklahoma

[Major Nikon]

21. They require a legislative vote and a signature

Depending on the vote they may not even need a signature. One law could change all relevant statutes.

Debate has been replaced by grandstanding if it ever existed at all.

All of the laws you mentioned are part and parcel to the problem of the government control over who gets those benefits and who doesn't. Controlling marriage simply invites discrimination on the basis of gender and sexual orientation which state and federal statues are infested with. The entire idea of state controlled marriage is outdated and needs to go away. The idea that we should keep laws which serve no useful benefit to society and present a clear detriment is conservative rather than progressive. I could care less with how many hours it would take for congressional staffers to research them. That's the job of legislators and their staff rather than spending their time on back room deals with monied interests that ultimately fuck John Q. Public more often than not. Statutes are all in digital form and a search on the word marriage and it's derrivatives would capture all the areas of concern. It's not as difficult as you make it out to be. It's not that uncommon that laws today span hundreds and even thousands of pages. The only reason it won't get done is because there isn't any large special interest group willing to drum up the political support for the effort. Rather than asking what is the cost of change, we should be asking what is the social cost of not changing.