Unmarried upl won’t jt be feelg prsure om their parents the wake of last week’s Supreme Court cisn legalizg gay marriage natnwi. The …
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- GAY MARRIAGE DON’T MAKE DOMTIC PARTNERSHIP OBSOLETE
- GAY MARRIAGE DON’T MAKE DOMTIC PARTNERSHIP OBSOLETE
GAY MARRIAGE DON’T MAKE DOMTIC PARTNERSHIP OBSOLETE
Unmarried upl won’t jt be feelg prsure om their parents the wake of last week’s Supreme Court cisn legalizg gay marriage natnwi. The … * is domestic partnership only for gay couples *
Over the years, the stggle for gay and lbian rights has rulted three ways which a same-sex uple n ga legal regnn for their relatnship: through a civil unn, a domtic partnership or a same-sex marriage. As of May 22, acrdg to Governg magaze, gay marriage was legal 19 stat and the District of Columbia. Sce the High Court opened the door to gay marriage, my lleague Bob Williams and others have wrten about the tax nsequenc for same-sex upl.
GAY MARRIAGE DON’T MAKE DOMTIC PARTNERSHIP OBSOLETE
* is domestic partnership only for gay couples *
Unmarried upl won’t jt be feelg prsure om their parents the wake of last week’s Supreme Court cisn legalizg gay marriage natnwi. Gay marriage beme legal all of the stat and the District of Columbia before the Supreme Court’s lg, and five (31 percent) ceased to offer civil unns or domtic partnerships once gay marriage was legal. Now that gay marriage is the law of the land, other stat may follow this example or simply never create domtic-partner optns for their cizens.
Although domtic partnerships, civil unns and other acmodatns for unmarried partners were often passed to meet the needs of gay upl, they are an example of the curb-cut effect — an acmodatn signed for a specific group that turns out to be eful to a broar segment of the populatn, jt as curb cuts for wheelchair ers wd up helpg parents wh strollers, bicyclists and many more. None of those 7 ln hoeholds ceased to benef om the opportuny for domtic partnership or civil unns when gay marriage beme legal. Perry se legalizg gay marriage California, and the 2015 Obergefell v.
Was my domtic partnership nverted to a marriage wh the legalizatn of gay marriage? In some stat, such as Washgton State, domtic partnerships tomatilly beme marriag when gay marriage was legalized. Even though domtic partnerships beme a popular alternative to marriage for gay upl the 1990s and early 2000s, domtic partnerships are not only for gay upl.