desh ([personal profile] desh) wrote2008-11-18 11:16 pm
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Can anyone offer a compelling argument as to why same-sex marriage should be legal everywhere in the US? Specifically, why that would be superior, in the long run, to "marriage" being removed as a legal term for everyone, and replaced by civil unions for any two un-unioned consenting adults (of whatever sex/gender)? Because I definitely prefer the latter, but I'm not sure if there are good reasons I haven't thought of as to why same-sex marriage is actually better.

(Leaving aside the question of multiple partners for now, since it raises a different set of issues...)
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[identity profile] bz-mahrabu.livejournal.com 2008-11-21 01:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Though NY doesn't have same-sex marriage (yet - now that the State Senate is flipping Democratic, we can hope), it explicitly recognizes same-sex marriages from other jurisdictions.

[identity profile] conana.livejournal.com 2008-11-21 03:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I know; I was very pleased when that came through. I probably should have picked some other state, and devoted a separate sentence to pointing out that NY's policy makes MA marriage distinctly different from VT civil union. (I presume MA would recognize a VT same-sex marriage; I haven't actually heard how VT treats MA marriages.)
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