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Legal protections afforded to married people affect income tax, pensions and inheritance to name a few. Also the ability to visit in hospital and make healthcare decisions if the partner is incapacitated.
Without the legal marriage, the partner is treated like a stranger off the street.
I’ve witnessed this in person, back in the 90s. One of the couple died intestate, and his family took the house that the deceased had before they met and the furnishings the couple had accumulated over 35 years together. Paul was literally evicted from his home legally and turned into the street with nothing but his clothes.
You’ve never studied ancient history, have you? The Greeks in particular were a pretty frisky lot.
That's one sliver of history.
Exceptions to the rule don't negate the general validity of the rule.
And that fact is, that although same sex relationships have existed throughout history, that doesn't mean that they've been accepted as "normal" throughout history.
If they were, we wouldn't be having this discussion and Congress wouldn't have come up with this law.
Exceptions to the rule don't negate the general validity of the rule.
And that fact is, that although same sex relationships have existed throughout history, that doesn't mean that they've been accepted as "normal" throughout history.
If they were, we wouldn't be having this discussion and Congress wouldn't have come up with this law.
What makes you think the Greeks were a “sliver?” Rome was also a hotbed of activity. Alexander the Great was Macedonian. Native Americans practiced gay marriage for millennia between “two-spirit” people, who were revered.
Religion is what suppressed what was always considered normal and natural. We should ban religion rather than homosexuality. That would eliminate the need for any more laws.
Having two parents of the same sex can love and nurture their kids just like any heterosexual couple. Kids don't care about the sex of their parents. Some are making this an issue because they are the ones who have a problem with this.
That's a matter of opinion..
And nothing makes your opinion on the subject any more valid than anyone else's.
Hate to break it to you, but vaginal intercourse has been optional for human reproduction since the 1970s.
Plenty of lesbians out there who have never had sex with a man and who have given birth.
Lolz....and what's the annual percentage of pregnancies that happen that way worldwide?
And it still takes a man's sperm to artificially inseminate a lesbian, so the only real difference is in the method of how that sperm in introduced to the egg.
Again, exceptions to the rule don't negate the general validity of the rule.
[quote=cuebald;64578125]What makes you think the Greeks were a “sliver?” Rome was also a hotbed of activity. Alexander the Great was Macedonian. Native Americans practiced gay marriage for millennia between “two-spirit” people, who were revered.
Religion is what suppressed what was always considered normal and natural. We should ban religion rather than homosexuality. That would eliminate the need for any more laws.[/QUOTE
Now you're arguing just for the sake of argument.
Same sex relationships as referred to in Greek history are an outlier compared to the rest of human history around the globe.
MOST cultures throughout history considered it taboo.
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