Resolved Question: Do you really think Domestic partnerships and Marriage are the same thing?

11 November 2008, 11:31 am

Aside from the obvious that domestic partnerships only include the 300 state benefits and do not include the 1049 federal benefits allowed to married couples. There are several other inequities just on the state level. Marriage takes a $45 dollar marriage license and automatically includes all rights and privileges there in. Domestic partnership is a $100 contract and takes an additional $5000 in legal fees to acquire all 300 state rights and you still do not receive the 1049 federal rights. Marriage is indisputable by anybody except the married parties. Domestic partnerships are disputable by ANYBODY especially family members of either partner if one is to become ill or hospitalized. If you are married and your spouse is in the hospital all you have to do is go in and say I'm their spouse and you get right in no questions asked. If you have a domestic partnership then you better have a binder full of legal paperwork on hand to prove it and if the doctor wants to be a jerk you may have to wait for the hospitals legal team to look it over which could take hours or even days meanwhile your spouse that they consider merely a partner could be dead. If you are married and you leave the state on vacation or anything you are still married and have all the same rights as you did in your home state. If you have a domestic partnership you better not ever travel out of state because if one of you gets hurt or sick you are subject to the laws and recognition of the state you are in. Besides all of that have we learned nothing from the fact that Seperate is not equal? If you call them two different things then states and radical groups can manipulate laws to continue to eliminate rights from people who do not have the word MARRIAGE attached to their legal paperwork. Look at Arkansas for example they just declared that all who are not Married can not adopt or foster children. This would exculde anyone with a domestic partnership if Arkansas allows Domestic partnership at all. How can you call that equal rights? Actually "mommy" that is what we have already done and been trying to do. The truoble is you are wrong the "churches" do not support us they want all or nothing. We do not want them to change their beliefs we just do not want them to change our laws.... Read More »

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