1. If the tax laws treated all individuals identically, whether they were married or not, I'd have no problem with it. However, as long as heterosexual married couples get tax perks, it strikes me as disgustingly unfair and ethically wrong for a legally secular nation to deny those benefits to gay couples.
2. I'm not allowed to be on my wife's health insurance policy. She's not allowed to be on mine. Why? Because our state doesn't recognize same-sex marriage. We could establish any contract we'd like, and write a mile-high stack of paperwork giving her my power-of-attorney, next-of-kin, sole beneficiary, or whatever... but they still won't let us have one family health insurance plan.
3. Unfortunately, there are no contracts, piles of paperwork, that would ever give my wife and me the LEGAL benefits of a married couple.
no subject
2. I'm not allowed to be on my wife's health insurance policy. She's not allowed to be on mine. Why? Because our state doesn't recognize same-sex marriage. We could establish any contract we'd like, and write a mile-high stack of paperwork giving her my power-of-attorney, next-of-kin, sole beneficiary, or whatever... but they still won't let us have one family health insurance plan.
3. Unfortunately, there are no contracts, piles of paperwork, that would ever give my wife and me the LEGAL benefits of a married couple.