Steve wrote:
> > In Massachusetts, marriage between same sex couples is legal and thus
good
> > genealogy.
>
>Bad biology.
>
>Of course when cloning *really* gets going, that may change, but I doubt
that
>it will make for better genealogy.
>
>I'd records such an event as a "Domestic Partnership" under events.
Not only is it legal for same sex couples to marry in Mass, they may also
adopt children in Mass and in other states. The fact that one can record
adoptions in Legacy and in other Genie programs demonstrates that Genealogy
is NOT just about blood lines or good or bad biology. Whether we like
gay marriages and adoptions or not is really beside the issue IMO.
In some states gays may have "Domestic Partnerships", but in Massachusetts
they have "Marriages". They are not partnerships of any kind. That was/is
the whole point! So the program should allow for recording both Domestic
Partnerships and Marriages and should not insist that the sexes in these
relationships be different.
They are legal facts of life today. And polygamy has been and is practiced
in various places and various times, whether legal or not. So to actually
record the history as it really happened genie programs should allow the
factual honest recording of all these variants. The program should attempt
to record what actually happend without making jugements about goodness,
badness, who cares ness! As Jack Webb used to say on Dragnet:
Just the facts Ma'am.
jr
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