RE: Atheists, do you support same-sex marriage?
April 26, 2015 at 2:05 pm
(This post was last modified: April 26, 2015 at 2:05 pm by Cyberman.)
(April 26, 2015 at 1:50 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote:(April 26, 2015 at 1:46 pm)Red Economist Wrote: Voted Yes. The only problem I have with same-sex marriage, is not the same-sex part. it's the idea of marriage and being legally-morally tied to someone as if they own me/I own them. Where's the fun in that?
It's not about ownership but about commitment. It shows that you intend to never leave that person, its kinda romantic.
It's also a legal recognition of partnership.
When what happened to my Sam... happened, I found that, because we weren't married, I had no claim to bereavement benefits of any kind. 'Traditional' marriage was recognised, as was same-sex civil partnerships, yet though a couple "living together as though married" - 'common-law' partnership - has legal standing in other areas, such as standard benefit claims and funeral costs, it doesn't in this case. It's not the money I was interested in, far from it - it just would have been nice to have an official record somewhere of our nine years together.
I voted yes, btw. Also, not American.
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