"I always find it amazing when people make the argument that we can not afford to give these benefits to the small number of Gay people out there." +++++I *think* the argument is supposed to be that the system will be abused by non-couples pairing up just for benefits. Leaving, of course, the supposed reason this would be more common than it is already with marriage unexplained.
"Dissolving a marriage results in divorce. What will they call this new and improved kind of divorce where there never was a marriage in the first place?" +++++If I remember rightly, it's called something like "dissolution" and works very much like divorce. Could be wrong on that, though, not actually being from Washington.
From what I've seen, there's a bigger disconnect in rural communities: a tendency to think of Tom and Bill down the street as your neighbors Tom and Bill, whom you know very well and think the world of, and still have an idea of "the gays" in general as, at best, those weird people in video from a Pride parade.
NCW rejects ‘everything but marriage’
"I always find it amazing when people make the argument that we can not afford to give these benefits to the small number of Gay people out there."
+++++I *think* the argument is supposed to be that the system will be abused by non-couples pairing up just for benefits. Leaving, of course, the supposed reason this would be more common than it is already with marriage unexplained.
"Dissolving a marriage results in divorce. What will they call this new and improved kind of divorce where there never was a marriage in the first place?"
+++++If I remember rightly, it's called something like "dissolution" and works very much like divorce. Could be wrong on that, though, not actually being from Washington.
November 6, 2009 at 10:13 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
NCW rejects ‘everything but marriage’
From what I've seen, there's a bigger disconnect in rural communities: a tendency to think of Tom and Bill down the street as your neighbors Tom and Bill, whom you know very well and think the world of, and still have an idea of "the gays" in general as, at best, those weird people in video from a Pride parade.
November 4, 2009 at 10:42 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )