civil union

Linky. Makes up for the whole volcano thing :p . Too bad the language is so crazy hard, or it would have moved up higher on my list.

Rep. Deb Mell of Illinois asked for a point of personal privilege to announce on the floor that she is marrying her girlfriend of six years. Of course, she is going to Iowa to do it. Rep. Harris has been trying to get a civil union bill to a vote for years, and it will probably be put off this...

We are down to only one or two gay marriage threads so I decided we needed to start another one. So in practice how has the attempt at linguistic fiction by differentiating marriage from civil partnerships worked out? Did they create to fully equal institutions or not? In what ways are they...

The Governor's veto was just overridden by the Vermont Legislature. Vermont was the first state to approve civil unions, and now is the fourth to approve same sex marriage. What is of significance is that this is the first state to approve same sex marriage WITHOUT a court ruling. This was...

Same sex couples are being warned about registering their civil unions in the cases where immigration is an issue. Despite these partnerships offering some limited levels of "recognition", a gay marriage is not recognized as reason to be allowed to stay in the country as far as federal...

In October, the New Jersey State Supreme Court issued a ruling that under the state constitution, all citizens, including the LGBT, are entitled to equal rights and protections under the law, including all of the rights and protections of marriage. They ordered the state legislature to amend the...

In the past few weeks, there have been several threads devoted to various aspects of the same-sex marriage debate. Occasionally economic issues have been touched upon in those threads, but haven't been a central focus. As the argument rages on, I thought I'd throw some more fuel on the fire...

"Jubilant supporters of the Civil Union Bill hugged, kissed and cheered as emotion overflowed inside and outside Parliament's debating chamber yesterday." The complete article is available at: http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3123548a6160,00.html

There's a lot of talk about civil unions and gay marriage these days. Most of the people on this forum seem pretty open to at least making civil unions availabe to gays if not marriage. So exactly what does this mean? There are lots of people living in long term relationships now that would...