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Originally Posted by strandinthewind
In my world, there would be no tax detriment or benefit to being married. In fact, the word marriage and/or spouse would appear in no law. I mean if the argument is that gays should not marry and they should quit their bitchin about it because 99.9% of the rights automatically granted to hetero marriage can be obtained via a private document (will, living will, Power of Attorney, etc.) then all marriages should have to obtain such contracts and the govt. has no business automatically giving it to one group and not the other.
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That's an interesting point. Is it really true that a homosexual couple can do this with their living wills/private documents and not have them contested in court by family members? Like, if a gay man or woman is on life support and his/her partner is given the right on paper to pull the plug or not to pull the plug, can the family of the terminal individual contest that and intervene?