Re: Ban Gay Marriage? NO!

On 29 Jun 2006 17:27:44 -0700, richardhutnik@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote, quoted
or indirectly quoted someone who said :

In other words, a prenuptual agreement, and leave it be.

It requires something like 26 legal agreements to cover the bases
marriage does in one neat well-tested package. I doubt it is even
possible to gain all the rights no matter how much you pay your
lawyer.

One of the biggest problems is dealing with relatives. If a partner
becomes extremely ill, sometimes fundamentalist families come swooping
in and exclude the life partner from visitation or even attending the
funeral. They may throw the partner out of the family home. Marriage
gives the partner rights to fend off relatives.

The original poster probably imagines he has the divine right to
meddle in his relatives' relationships. The does not want to be
thwarted in his malice.

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