The Civil Partnership Act 2004 enables identical-sex couples to get legal recognition of their partnership. Whilst gay and lesbian households can protect themselves in restricted ways by constructing wills, health care proxies and co-parent adoptions, alone or in addition to domestic partnerships or civil unions, this does not come close to emulating the automatic protections and peace of mind that only marriage can give. Additionally, California’s domestic partnership law had been expanded to the point that it became practically a civil union law, as effectively. The protections and benefits of domestic partnerships are commonly minimal, and are not recognized if the couple travels outside their household state. Two persons of a unique sex can marry but not enter into a civil partnership.

I do not assistance gay marriage, but I also do not help a constitutional amendment banning it. Nonetheless, I do assistance same sex unions that would give gay … Read the rest >>>