Positive Liberty

Same-sex couples from Wisconsin who travel to California to get married will face nine months in jail and up to ten thousand dollars in fines.

“Someone has to prosecute them… That’s a defrauding of the government,” says a supporter of the law.

Now wait a minute. Sure, the law says that they should be penalized, but on what basis? Where is the harm that would make this a just penalty? How are the taxpayers being defrauded here? Why should the government consider itself “defrauded” over the mere existence of a non-binding piece of paper?