Read this and tell me do not need gay marriage?

Question

This couple were together over 25 years own a home joint bank accounts etc...
One is now in a coma and his parents will not let the partner visit

I know this situatuion could happen to a straight couple but straight couples have the option to marry or not

Gay couples do not have that option

http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2007708060398

Marisa G straight couples can get married Gay couples cannnot get married

I am OK with Civil Unions as long as is the law in all 50 states

Answer 1

As long as it entails all the benefits of heterosexual marriage, I do not care what they call it. Civil Unions or Marriage, it does not matter, as long as the two people involved, are protected. And as for this couple, it is sad that after twenty-five years together, they would be subjected to this kind of treatment. At this point, it doesn't matter what the parents think. They were together for twenty-five years, and shouldn't be kept from one another. The parents are wrong, plain and simple, and need to get past their hatred.

Answer 2

Any person that says that civil unions are the equivalent of marriage is living with his or her head in the sand. Legally, even with a Civil Union, all the guy's Good Christian family would need to do is drag the guy across state lines to defy his will and keep him from his chosen life partner. The New Jersey "experiment" in Civil Unions, and even Massachusetts' "real" marriage, prove that until marriage is available to any two consenting, competent, unrelated adults, gay-bashers will use the "separate but equal" status to attack gay families. UPS had to be shamed into abiding by New Jersey's court order mandating equal recognition of marriages and civil unions, even as dozens of other companies continue to thumb their nose at it, and gay couples in Massachusetts continue to be cheated out of the social security and federal tax benefits that come with federally recognized "marriage". And, of course, gay families all across the country continue to be at the mercy and whim of popular opinion; imagine if all civil rights for all minority groups were subject to mob rule!

Answer 3

I know conservatives detest and regret that no official definition of marriage was written into the Constitution. Honestly, people fear same-sex marriage because it does not follow Godly principle. Furthermore, there is no REAL separation of church and state in this country, only on paper. We still have God on our money, in our legal practices, and sell the bible in more places than any other book published in the nation. The answer to your question is because God is not completely gone, to the anger of secularists. Also, people/conservatives/christians against same-sex marriage know that if we take God out of marriage, there is nothing forbidding incestuous marriage. We have seen father and daughter have children perfectly healthy and claim to be completely in love with each other. We have even given incestites a medical excuse for their lust, "genetic sexual attraction." As a conservative, I am weary of the legalization of homosexual marriage because I would die at the legalization of incestuous marriage. Both of which are secular, and only wrong in the eyes of God.

Answer 4

Thank you for mentioning something like this. It happens far too often. Sometimes there is a downside to this. I"m a lesbian and I'm getting married in alittle over a month. We're just doing our own personal private committment ceremony. She's actually from Vermont and we could have a civil union, but she doesn't want the government in our lives-considering it's going down the crapper. But I'm all in favor of having the "choice" to have an actual, legally binding ceremony.

Answer 5

I agree we Totally should have the right to divorce. It's an insurance issue. They don't want to pay for gays too. They use the family morals groups and such, but it's the health and life insurance companies. It's nothing personal I'm sure, just bussiness. Personally I think Gay Marriage wont grant us equality, and I don't think I'd ever get married even if I could, but I'd like my other glbt family to be able to. Happy Activisming!

Answer 6

Now I am not anti gay marriage, in fact I'm married myself. However there is no one on this earth who would stop me from seeing my seriously ill partner married or not. To me that is beyond human rights and personal beliefs. It is about putting the patient first. If those parents have one scrap of love for their son they would do whatever it took to get him out of the coma, even if that meant 'burying the hatchet' for a while.

Answer 7

These kinds of stories sadly happen all the time. It took getting a little older and more settled with my partner before I began to realize the importance of gay marriage.

Let's just hope that our up and coming generations never even have to let these thoughts cross their minds. Hopefully, EQUAL rights will be for all people soon!!

Answer 8

That is definitely wrong. Who has the right to say that homosexuals don't have the right to love each other? Marriage is for two people who love each other and want to be together, not just for a man and a woman together. Gay people are normal people like you and me, they just don't like the same gender, and who cares? The parents also have no right to say that. They all love him, they should all be able to see him.

Answer 9

While I do NOT support gay marriage as an option, I do sympathize with this situation. I believe civil unions are the only reasonable compromise. They would protect the rights of longtime gay couples who have built a life together, yet not infringe on the sanctity of "marriage". Marriage is something that has always been, and SHOULD be, reserved for one man and one woman. I'm all for being fair, but to classify a homosexual union as "marriage" is just crossing the line!

Answer 10

Marriage by any other name is not the same. If you won't afford GLBT peoples marriage equality, at least make divorce illegal. Since marriage is such a revered state of being, GD hypocrites!