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In that you don't think you'll want to get married? Or that you think same-sex marriages should be criminalized or just not recognized? Can you be more specific and explain why?
I would much rather have civil unions and/or domestic partnerships that have the same rights, privileges, etc as marriage.
Allfamilies, relationships, and households struggling for stability and economic security will be helped by separating basic forms of legal and economic recognition from the requirement of marital and conjugal relationship.
^They do a much better job of explaining it all. I know it's quite lengthy but some parts are worth reading.
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U.S. Census findings tell us that a majority of people, whatever their sexual and gender identities, do not live in traditional nuclear families. Recognizing the diverse households that already are the norm in this country is simply a matter of expanding upon the various forms of legal recognition that already are available. The LGBT movement has played an instrumental role in creating and advocating for domestic partnerships, second parent adoptions, reciprocal beneficiary arrangements, joint tenancy/home-ownership contracts, health care proxies, powers of attorney, and other mechanisms that help provide stability and security for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and heterosexual individuals and families. During the height of the AIDS epidemic, our communities formed support systems and constructed new kinds of families and partnerships in the face of devastating crisis and heartbreak. Both our communities and our HIV organizations recognized, respected, and fought for the rights of non-traditionally constructed families and non-conventional partnerships. Moreover, the transgender and bisexual movements, so often historically left behind or left out by the larger lesbian and gay movement, have powerfully challenged legal constructions of relationship and fought for social, legal, and economic recognition of partnerships, households, and families, which include members who shatter the narrow confines of gender conformity.
To have our government define as “legitimate families” only those households with couples in conjugal relationships does a tremendous disservice to the many other ways in which people actually construct their families, kinship networks, households, and relationships. For example, who among us seriously will argue that the following kinds of households are less socially, economically, and spiritually worthy?
· Senior citizens living together, serving as each other’s caregivers, partners, and/or constructed families
· Adult children living with and caring for their parents
· Grandparents and other family members raising their children’s (and/or a relative’s) children
· Committed, loving households in which there is more than one conjugal partner
· Blended families
· Single parent households
· Extended families (especially in particular immigrant populations) living under one roof, whose members care for one another
· ***** couples who decide to jointly create and raise a child with another ***** person or couple, in two households
· Close friends and siblings who live together in long-term, committed, non-conjugal relationships, serving as each other’s primary support and caregivers
· Care-giving and partnership relationships that have been developed to provide support systems to those living with HIV/AIDS
Marriage is not the only worthy form of family or relationship, and it should not be legally and economically privileged above all others. While we honor those for whom marriage is the most meaningful personal – for some, also a deeply spiritual – choice, we believe that many other kinds of kinship relationship, households, and families must also be accorded recognition.
I am a hetero as well and I approve of this message!
I have noticed that coworkers and just overall most married 10 yrs plus regret it be it men/women .
If no kids they part if kids they endure it but when the kids move on they are miserable.
Granted not all but majority .
I never understood why anyone would want to get married and having marriage on the table is a big headache and causes arguments , break ups for me and many others in both genders.
What is good for the Goose is good for the Gander so do support same exact rights for gays .
I would much rather have civil unions and/or domestic partnerships that have the same rights, privileges, etc as marriage.
Allfamilies, relationships, and households struggling for stability and economic security will be helped by separating basic forms of legal and economic recognition from the requirement of marital and conjugal relationship.
^They do a much better job of explaining it all. I know it's quite lengthy but some parts are worth reading.
I havent read the link but will now but I want you to be as miserable as most of my coworkers and possibly me one day lol thus I have voted yes for gay marriage and will continue.
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