Partnership Act Creates Greater Inequality

[indibulous]

A new law came into effect in NJ, yesterday. It is called "The Domestic Partnership Act". Basically, it allows same-sex couples nearly all of the same rights as a married couple, without the institute of marriage. It applies to same-sex couples of any age, 18+, but opposite-sex couples only ages 62

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[friedbrain]

valid points, i agree . . . though, i think one needs to keep in mind that change occurs slowly, and while seperate but equal isn't right, this needs to be viewed as an intermediary step that affords same-sex couples the immediate means to legally link their healh and financial resourses together, while the hicks i'm surrounded 'get over' their homophobic red-neck ways. i wouldn't petition so hard for this to be repealed and changed just yet. it took this country over 100 years to admit that seperate but equal for African Americans is unconstitutional, and enslaving black persons was something done in this country for only 300-400 years. Now, marriage has been recorded as a union between a man and a woman (or, man and several women . . . poligamy) for as long as humans have been recording history. It's taken 100+ years (nearly 150+) to undo the wrong doings of 400 years; I don't expect it to be a swift process to undo the 3000 year old majority accepted version of marriage . . . do you? I think we need to give homosexual couples a

[indibulous]

But at the same idea, why should they be afforded special rights? Why should they receive power of attorney over an incapacitated partner, while a strait couple can't get that right without being married? No matter how you cut it, everyone is getting screwed to some extent. I don't want to get married, but if I'm living with Chandra, and something should happen to her, I should be able to make the calls, not her mother (who would be her next of kin). There are two ways to go on this: they can either allow any couple to get these rights, provided the criteria is met (and that criteria should have NOTHING to do with sexual orientation), or they can scrap the whole thing and let everyone get married. I have no problem with a law that now allows any couple, strait or gay, certain legal rights that were, until now, only associated with marriage. I have a problem with a law that only allows those rights to same-sex couples (just as I would have a problem with any law that only allowed certain rights to opposite-sex couples).

C Ya,
Eric

fight the power!!!

[mamamuppet]

i do agree that it is fucked up that i now do not have the same rights as a gay person but at least i know it is all bullshit. lets not forget that african americans got rights before wonen. depends on the election year i guess. also- i knew i kept eric around for a good reason! ;)

Re: fight the power!!!

[indibulous]

Black people had "rights", sure. They were allowed to vote, by law, but then phony laws were made up to create unpassable "voter qualification" tests that prevented them from exercising that right. Those laws were deemed unconstitutional after women's suffrage.

C Ya,
Eric