Gay and Lesbian Partners Deserve Health Benefits

In today's USA, 1 to 12% of the population is homosexual (Gilbert, 17). In recent years, homosexuals, lesbians and bisexuals have long claimed that it is difficult to obtain the same rights and benefits as heterosexuals. Employers and health care providers are now forced to listen to their equal voice. Employers should provide health benefits to domestic partners of homosexual employees. This problem may make society think and change the true meaning of their definition of husband and wife / family.

Homosexual and lesbian groups went to trial to the federal government to expand Ottawa to homosexuals and lesbians excluded the welfare of survivors. Gay and lesbian partners - the benefits of the Canadian pension scheme from their dead partners - the federal government discriminated against them and said they had a class $ 400 million class action suit. Judge of Manitoba State in Queen's Court, given the provisions of the Charter of Rights and Freedom, the current marriage definition "announced that it is no longer constitutively effective." Neither federal attorneys nor local lawyers tried to oppose lawsuits raised by three pairs of couple in Manitoba. Shortly thereafter, state officials began issuing marriage certificates to same - sex couples.

Denying the rights of spouses of lesbians and homosexual couples not only deprives the social and spiritual significance of their marriage but it also results in serious, often tragic and practical results. As they can not get married, lesbian and homosexual male partners are not relatives in critical times; they are not seeking advice on important medical decisions; they get permission to take care of each other Not like they are Americans, they do not have a will. Marriage status is often the basis for employers to extend health insurance, pensions and other benefits. American Civil Liberties Union believes that because it has had a social impact on marriage, it violates the equal protection of the law and deprives the lesbian and gay couple their rights.

A negative review of marriage on homosexual men and lesbians' health and happiness recalls that equality of marriage is a very complicated and delicate issue. However, I think that depriving tangible (and intangible) interests from lesbian and gay men is not just a kind of discrimination.

Lesbians and homosexual men take their children into their lives in various ways. In a lesbian couple, there is often one partner who gives birth to one child and the other partner - second parent - if allowed in the state they live, the second parent or stepfather Become a legitimate parent from. Gay men can do the same by using medicines to carry children born from partner sperm and eggs. In the province where this is permitted, partners on both sides are lawful parents from the beginning, as the same-sex couples may adopt their children together. These state lesbians and gay singles and couples can adopt children even through agencies or independent adoption, even through international adoption (adoption of the Hague treaty by the United States at present It makes it more difficult to adopt internationally.) For various usage, please refer to Nolo's article "Types of Installation".