Comments on: ACLU sues for domestic partnerships in Montana http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2010/07/22/24559 News, analysis and fact-checking of anti-gay rhetoric Tue, 21 May 2013 16:00:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Scott http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2010/07/22/24559/comment-page-1#comment-73366 Scott Thu, 22 Jul 2010 21:59:49 +0000 http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/?p=24559#comment-73366 Children? Yes. http://www.aclu.org/lgbt-rights/donaldson-and-guggenheim-v-montana-about-plaintiffs Children? Yes.

http://www.aclu.org/lgbt-rights/donaldson-and-guggenheim-v-montana-about-plaintiffs

]]> By: Ben in Oakland http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2010/07/22/24559/comment-page-1#comment-73353 Ben in Oakland Thu, 22 Jul 2010 18:23:04 +0000 http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/?p=24559#comment-73353 I hope that some of these couples have children to maake the point. I hope that some of these couples have children to maake the point.

]]> By: Ben in Oakland http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2010/07/22/24559/comment-page-1#comment-73352 Ben in Oakland Thu, 22 Jul 2010 18:19:23 +0000 http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/?p=24559#comment-73352 As far as I can tell, the argument now becomes this-- and it's aobut time. Marriage is the way adults in our society form new families. They get specific rights, privileges, and obligations by signing that particular contract. You are now your family's repsonsibility, and they yours. Your parents aren't making the life and death decsions, you husband or wife is. So why is this easily obtainable contract only available to to people with different genitalia, and not to people with the same genitalia? Why are the children of the former entitled to all of the legal protections that having married parents will allow them, but not the dhildren of the people iwth different genitalia? This is now how the quesiton needs to be framed. As far as I can tell, the argument now becomes this– and it’s aobut time.

Marriage is the way adults in our society form new families. They get specific rights, privileges, and obligations by signing that particular contract. You are now your family’s repsonsibility, and they yours. Your parents aren’t making the life and death decsions, you husband or wife is.

So why is this easily obtainable contract only available to to people with different genitalia, and not to people with the same genitalia? Why are the children of the former entitled to all of the legal protections that having married parents will allow them, but not the dhildren of the people iwth different genitalia?

This is now how the quesiton needs to be framed.

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