Right now straights have marriage and everyone else has domestic partnership. That sounds like "separate but equal" to me and it must not stand.
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Laga - May 26, 2009 11:22:41 am PDT #10979 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
tommyrot - May 26, 2009 11:24:01 am PDT #10980 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Traditionally, the bride's parents.
Huh. My parents lucked out then, as their one daughter cannot currently marry her partner (and last time I talked to them, they had no interest in getting married. They are registered as Domestic Partners in the City of Madison, however.)
NoiseDesign - May 26, 2009 11:24:29 am PDT #10981 of 30000
Our wings are not tired
That's the thing, it's pretty much what we have now, but since it's called Marriage all kinds of church and religious issues get caught up into it. The idea of just having a legal contract seems to be okay for some people for gay marriage, and my take is that, well if it's that good, and it is truly equal, then all marriages become a simple legal contract called a domestic partnership and we remove the term marriage from it.
If folks want the term marriage applied to their union, then it is something they can do but that has no legal impact on the domestic partnership.
-t - May 26, 2009 11:24:55 am PDT #10982 of 30000
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Gotcha. I can see that argument, but in some ways that seems like an even harder change to make than expanding who has the right to marry.
Laga - May 26, 2009 11:27:01 am PDT #10983 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
At my wedding we (the bride and groom) paid for most things, the groom's parents paid for some things and my Dad picked up the enormous bar tab.
Fred Pete - May 26, 2009 11:27:45 am PDT #10984 of 30000
Ann, that's a ferret.
everyone else has domestic partnership
Depends on what state you live in. Most states don't have anything at all for the rest of us.
And for the record, I certainly wouldn't mind the churches handling something called "marriage" and the government handling something called "civil union" or "domestic partnership" or the like.
Polter-Cow - May 26, 2009 11:30:22 am PDT #10985 of 30000
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Laga - May 26, 2009 11:31:47 am PDT #10986 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
that seems like an even harder change to make than expanding who has the right to marry.
that's the crux of the biscuit for me.
Ginger - May 26, 2009 11:32:31 am PDT #10987 of 30000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Marriage provides more rights than domestic partnership's, which are very fuzzy, particularly if you've moved to a place that doesn't have domestic partnership. Marriage gives you uncontested right to things like your spouse's pension and specific inheritance rights.
NoiseDesign - May 26, 2009 11:38:08 am PDT #10988 of 30000
Our wings are not tired
Marriage provides more rights than domestic partnership's, which are very fuzzy, particularly if you've moved to a place that doesn't have domestic partnership. Marriage gives you uncontested right to things like your spouse's pension and specific inheritance rights.
And this is precisely the reason I'd like to see all marriages turned into domestic partnerships. If the two are truly equal then there should be no complaints. Somehow I think there would be a LOT of complaining if this were actually be proposed.