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I'm not sure what world you live in that not being able to enter a formal contract with a partner means "you do not deserve to share your life with the person y
by philippejara 7y ago
I'm not sure what world you live in that not being able to enter a formal contract with a partner means "you do not deserve to share your life with the person you love. You don't deserve to take care of them when they're sick. You don't deserve a family with them. Because you're gay"
A piece of paper and some legal guarantees is not stopping you from having a family, sharing your life with and aiding said person in sickness.
I am and always were in favor of gay marriage as long as marriages were a thing(as in, i'd rather they not exist as a "formal" thing), but this hyperbolic nonsense that the only possible reason there is disagreement on it is because they hate the gays and nothing else is just silly.
- rileymat2 7y agoThere are lots of legal wrinkles to that "piece of paper", for instance with respect to hospital visitation policies and the ability to adopt. So yes, some of those things are directly impacted.
- BrendanEich 7y agoAre you aware of California's form of civil unions, Domestic Partnership Law? Still on the books, and it provides the same positive rights with respect to hospital visitations, etc. I was among the majority of Californias who supported this law as passed and amended. I would not have supported Prop 8 without it on the books.
- damnyou 7y agoUS immigration laws require an actual marriage, not just something that looks like one. Please educate yourself about what marriage actually means, not just what you think it means.
- BrendanEich 7y agoFederal law (DOMA) preempted state law here. I was against DOMA on legal grounds, FWIW. California was not going to get around DOMA by changing state law.
- damnyou 7y agoSo whom did you donate to in your quest to get DOMA repealed, and how much?
- BrendanEich 7y agoI voted Obama in 2008, that was more than enough. When will you acknowledge that your immigration claim about state law was in error?