I know that refusing gay marriage is infringing on allowing rights to gay couples. I, however, cannot figure out what these rights are. Any help please?
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Partner benefits, hospital visitation rights, inheritance, that sort of stuff is important to same gender partners in the same way as it is to heterosexual partners.
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i cant figure it out either.
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when you make a law any law that offers benefits to a certain class of people (in this case marriage). what you are doing is setting that class apart for special treatment. than if you further by law limit access to that class you have set in place a double standard. other examples of this are Jim Crow and prewoman movement land/ credit/ voting laws. what further makes these laws despicable is that they were originally set in place to enshrine racism and sexism. through these laws these benefits are restricted; rites of inheritance, medical legal status, adoption, tax status, soc. sec. status to name a few.
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Gay (GLBT) people seek the same recognition under the law as everybody else. They seek to be acknowledged in the same fashion as "straight" people. For example, when a gay couple wishes to form a legally recognized partnership, such as marriage, they seek the same legal rights as a straight married couple...such as inheritance, property division, medical access to their sick partner, etc. Gays somehow feel that if they are to be exposed to death or dismemberment in the military they should be permitted to enjoy the same relationships as heterosexual people. A good rule of thumb would be to judge the conduct of gays with the same passion and prejudice that one uses when evaluating a person who is right handed versus a person who is left handed. That is, somewhere in the Constitution is says "we hold these truths to be self evident...al men were created equal". That pretty well says it all.
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If you operate under that logic, then no couple has a "Right" to be recognized as such by the government. But by recognizing partnerships between men and woman and granting them special rights, the government establishes legal precedent for providing those rights to all partnerships. And from there it's just a matter of hypocrisy.
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In the last 2 centuries at some point, marriage stopped being purely a sacrament of the church and became a civil institution. Where the church "regulated" it before, it's now done by the state. Gays are asking for that civil institution to be available to us on an equal basis. We are asking for approval from any religious organization. We asking for recognition from the state. If the state followed purely religious rules for what constitutes a marriage, then atheists would not be allowed to marry either. It's already been pointed out by other answerers that there are many many rights that are allowed to married couples. We want those too.
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