Marriage and Civil Unions are different. Marriage implies a legal contract not only between the partners coupling, but the state and the Federal Government. This involves areas such as Taxes (being able to file as a couple), health benefits, survivor benefits and a myriad of others.
Civil Unions are a legal contract between the partners as well as their state. Some benefits at the state level can be conferred, but none of the federal benefits. Personally, I think all unions should be civil and available to all people, with all the legal benefits and responsibilities being derived from the civil union through the govt. If people want to get married in a particular religion, that's fine as well as a separate entity and they should at that point have to conform to that religion's requirements (1 man, 1 woman as an example), but marriage in and of itself shouldn't convey the legal benefits if it is religious. One thing that has really bugged me about the idea of marriage is that it is a quasi-relgious/state insitution. What happened to the separation of church and state? Sandra Clark ============================== http://www.shayna.com Training in Cascading Style Sheets and Accessibility CSS HANDS ON New York City, October 10-13, 2006. http://www.shayna.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=training.syllabus_display&id=1 -----Original Message----- From: Scott Stroz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 28, 2006 2:02 PM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: Welp, it's official On 7/24/06, Sam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sorry, I thought civil unions fixed all that. Kind of like 'separate but equal'? Marriage is a civil union, as well as a religious ceremony. Why should the union of a homosexual couple have a different name than that of a heterosexual couple? -- Scott Stroz Boyzoid.com ___________________________ Some days you are the dog, Some days you are the tree. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:211969 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
