(February 28, 2014 at 10:19 pm)Tiberius Wrote: That said, other benefits are worth having, such as the right to be your partner's next of kin, the right to handle their affairs if they are ill, etc. There are too many horror stories of married gay people who live in states which do not support gay marriage being denied access to their partners whilst they lie dying or critically injured in hospital.
This, no question at all.
Personally, though, my idea is that at a legal level, all marriages, gay or straight, are seen as civil unions and civil unions are therefore given all the legal status that marriage currently has. If a church wants to call it a marriage or a wedding, that's just fine, and those are still legally civil unions. Let's the homophobes maintain their sanctity of marriage while gay people are allowed all the same rights, responsibilities and privileges of any other couple.
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"If you cling to something as the absolute truth and you are caught in it, when the truth comes in person to knock on your door you will refuse to let it in." ~ Siddhartha Gautama
