gay marriage, healthcare, households

The root cause of the marriage debate is that marriage is mixed in with the definition of a household, which has tax, benefit, and inheritance (money and assets) issues attached to it.
This root issue needs to be talked out.
A household under the legal definition is at odds with the natural or functional definition of a household.
A household should be allowed to be children supporting parents or parents supporting dependent children regardless of age, or a legally declared household (i.e. two or more adults, etc.).
Government should be structured under the principle that it will free the people to organize themselves as they need to, not as the government dictates.
A change in the legal definition of household could help relieve the health coverage problem we currently have, especially the very critical elderly care problems that are bound to get more critical.