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There are laws on the books full of references to "men" or occassionally "White men". The Americans, "re-wrote" all that by adding a few lines to the constituti
by true_religion 14y ago
There are laws on the books full of references to "men" or occassionally "White men". The Americans, "re-wrote" all that by adding a few lines to the constitution saying that women and other races had equal rights as white men, and could not be discriminated against.
Thus the old laws applied to everyone,without a need for someone to go at them with eraser and ink.
- rayiner 14y agoI'm operating under the assumption that the "civil union" would be a separate legal construct, distinct from marriage, that defined its own rights for managing property, etc. Sure, it would be trivial to just say "gays can go down to the court house and get a civil union, and all civil unions should be treated exactly like marriages for the purpose of the law." But then civil unions are exactly the same thing as marriages.
- true_religion 14y ago> " But then civil unions are exactly the same thing as marriages. That's right. Proponents of civil union say that everyone (including heterosexuals) should be granted civil union, and somewhere in the anals of law it should say "civil union is legally equivalent to marriage".