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Quote by: Starboy Because there are a great number of rights that are granted to family members that are not available to non-family members. If you work for a company with a health plan they will only extend it to family members. If your spouse is ill and cannot make their own medical decisions then the hospital looks only to family members. When you retire and you die, your retirement benefits are only extended to family members. There are thousands of such cases where unless you are a family member you have no say even though you live in the same household, contribute equally to that household and have a life long commitment to the other person. And yes it is possible to use other instruments to try to extend these various rights to the other spouse but it can cost a lot of money, you may have to sue constantly and in many cases the institutions ignore it anyway because it is so out of the ordinary.
The state already has a mechanism to recognize the life long commitment of two people as a family. It is called a marriage license. The fact that it is deliberately denied to two people of the same sex that in every other way are married is just plain old discrimination.
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Ah, that makes sense.
Well I can tell you one thing for sure: religion has pretty much infiltrated the morals of not only the politicos but the majority of citizens. They don't want it so pretty much there is nothing that can be done about it.