Discussion Topic: The Right To Marry
If you're anything like me, then you need processing time before you really know how you feel about the California court decision on Prop. 8.
Most people are not like me, and they already know how they feel. Good for them, in that it helps simplify their daily decisions ( Read more... )
Most people are not like me, and they already know how they feel. Good for them, in that it helps simplify their daily decisions ( Read more... )
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Civil Unions and Domestic Partnerships are not equal to marriage. (Separate but equal? Come on!)
In 1996, Congress passed a law saying that the federal government would discriminate against the marriages of same-sex couples (the so-called “Defense of Marriage Act” or DOMA) by denying them all the protections that the federal government gives to all other validly married couples. As a result, the federal government for five years has been discriminating against the married same-sex couples of Massachusetts. It will, as things now stand, continue to deny equal treatment to same-sex couples that marry in Connecticut, Iowa, Vermont, and Maine, and to those who married in California in 2008.
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