Happy Day

[shakatany]

George Takei and his longtime partner, Brad Altman, have agreed to live long and prosper together. I am so happy for them and Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi and all the other gays in California who can enjoy the same rights of most Americans. Now for the remaining states.

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[dolnmoon.livejournal.com]

It would be great if every state would at least acknowledge Homosexual relationships even if we couldn't get legally married but could use a cohabitation clause for things like health insurance, Medical benefits, post death benefits and estate closure/transfer (as is done with married couples after once spouse dies).

The only problem with legalizing Gay Marriage is the Tax and financial issues it brings up. Some Gay couples tend to not be monogamous, especially men and I would bet you that their would be a higher rate of Gay divorce in this country than Heterosexual divorce. I just don't think it is something that the Gay community (even though they want it so much) can handle. They have been living in an "alternate" lifestyle for so long with no true rules to their relationships that this would throw them into a whole new reform completely opposite to the way they are used to living.

For me I would love to marry Stacy and she I but then our financial situation would change drastically. Our taxes would become joint and that means we would end up losing lots of money which we can't afford to do and the laws of community property with your spouse would come into play, her credit and my credit would effect each others life... I think the way it is now is fine for us we have what we need and we love each other, everything else is incidental.

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