For example, as far as same-sex marriage goes, I'm all for it and I'm arguing it right now. I know that there are some things perks married couples can recieve that civil union couples can't have, but I don't know what they are! Any thoughts?
2007-04-12 09:47:10 · 4 answers · asked by Katie 3 in Family & Relationships ➔ Marriage & Divorce
civil unions do grant the same rights to same sex couples as marriage does.....
2007-04-12 09:50:36 · answer #1 · answered by abc 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Civil union does NOT grant the same rights. In a Civil Union there is no presumption of inheritance, as there is in marriage. In a Civil Union both people cannot adopt a child, only one of them can. The other party is just "the other person", not a parent under the law.
Civil union is minimal protection. Very minimal.
2007-04-12 16:53:26 · answer #2 · answered by Kaia 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's mainly a battle to elevate civil unions so they are indistinguishable from marriage. In the quest for two same-sex people to prove that one of them is really not of the same sex (more butch, more fem, more swish, whatever), they want to remove all indications that a relationship is between two of the same gender - even if inevitably, one tries to have a mustache and wear a toolbelt with her slacks) It's crap.
I'm all in favor of civil unions and I want to be able to marry a roommate who I hardly know but with whom I want certain benefits. As long as she's willing, what do I care?
I don't want it to be called a marriage. We aren't a man and a woman. We aren't even lesbos. But if the state has no business in my bedroom, then I want to be free to have nothing in my bedroom at all except the hetero boyfriends I bring home (this is hypothetical in the present tense but when I was single and living with female roommates, we could have used the health benefits from each other's jobs when we were uncertain about how our careers were going!)
2007-04-16 14:10:27 · answer #3 · answered by kathyw 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Same sex couples don't have the same rights as married couples. Especially in things like the death or injury of a partner.. if they are married any compensation would go to the husband or wife.. if they are a same sex couple in a civil union then they don't get that same support.
2007-04-12 16:54:16 · answer #4 · answered by Angel 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋