jamesrage said:Perhaps I am wrong and there is actually a difference between marriage,civil unions and domestic partnerships.
PeteEU said:But why deny inheritance advantages or tax advantages or other advantages married people get, if 2 people of the same sex happen to love each other and want to commit themselvs to each other?
I understand that such things do not address the majority of the problems.jamesrage said:There are these things called wills and power of attorney that ensure that individuals can leave each other their stuff or have visitation rights and many other things.
jamesrage said:There are these things called wills and power of attorney that ensure that individuals can leave each other their stuff or have visitation rights and many other things.
JustineCredible said:These are situations that are not fictional, they happen all the time and it's the CHILDREN who are the victims!
Not because their parents are gay/lesbian, but because society is closed minded and archaic!
Do you have any real links to support this claim?I would think the ACLU website might have something if these claims of yours were remotely true.JustineCredible said:Obviously the concept of "contest" hasn't crossed your mind.
Just because a gay/lesbian couple do have wills or living wills does not guarantee these documents will not be contested. All too often there are civil law cases where grandparents of a child of a gay/lesbian couple will attempt to secure custody of said child because the grandparents simply cannot abide by the wishes of the decedent partner. !
jamesrage said:Do you have any real links to support this claim?I would think the ACLU website might have something if these claims of yours were remotely true.
JustineCredible said:Fine, if you so insist upon fact: Gay Couples Not Allowed At Rhode Island Cemeteryhttp://365gay.com/Newscon06/03/032206tomb.htm
Congressman Frank Disappointed by Treatment of Same-Sex Couple Survivors
3/19/2002
http://tampabaycoalition.homestead.com/files/320BarneyFrank911GayCompensation.htm
Other Tragedies
four fifths of the way down the page: http://www.buddybuddy.com/survive.html
Alabama Supreme Court Rules Against Lesbian Parent
http://www.gaylawnet.com/news/1998/ch980406.htm#alabama_court
Ruled Out
Non-Biological Moms Lose Rights When Relationships End
http://www.gaylawnet.com/news/1998/ch980406.htm#alabama_court
State Appeals Court: No Child Support Owed by Lesbian
http://www.gaylawnet.com/news/2004/ch0405.htm#state_appeals
Korimyr the Rat said:The people that are fighting over the name, instead of fighting over the definitions, just need to be smacked
jamesrage said:It puzzles me why someone would think giving something a different name would make it different.If I called cow dung a cow pie does that cow dung any different?
star2589 said:who thinks giving marriage a different name would change it?
jamesrage said:Start a gay marriage thread and state how you beleave that only domestic partnerships and civil unions should be for gay and that marriage is for striaghts and you will see them come out of the woodwork.
jamesrage said:There are these things called wills and power of attorney that ensure that individuals can leave each other their stuff or have visitation rights and many other things.
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