Same-Sex Marriage, Civil Unions, and Domestic Partnerships

News on homosexuals, citizen unions, family partnerships, including comments and archives posted at the New York Times

The recession is constantly manifesting. In early 2000, Alaska, Hawaii, Nebraska, Missouri, Louisiana, Ohio, Michigan, Montana, Texas, Kansas, Oklahoma opposed gay marriage. , A partnership between a citizen union and a family. In 2004, President Bush said that he supported the constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage. In 2014, judges in Texas and Ohio ordered the state government to reconsider the ban on gay marriage. There were difficulties, but other countries are beginning to recognize gay marriages. In early 2000, Vermont, Massachusetts and Connecticut recognized the partnership with the citizen union. In the same year when Bush made his comment, Massachusetts became the first state to legalize homosexual marriages in the United States.

The proposal to completely replace marriage with a civil union or family partnership is different from the "compromise" proposal of the double marriage law. Only for homosexual couples, and if you choose heterosexuality only for civic unions or family partnerships of same sex couples. The compromise gives a part of the marriage's benefit to the same-sex couples without the title of marriage (or any benefit actually provided). This position does not fully answer gay marriage disputes.

That country legalized homosexual marriage on December 9, 2017. Since 2003, states and territories have begun to recognize the benefits of family partnerships and relationships with same-sex couples, and Federal law recognizes same-sex couples as a de facto relationship since 2009. At the same time as marriage, states or territories can recognize homosexual relationships in various ways, including citizens' associations, family partnerships, registration relationships, and / or unregistered facts.

Even if the Federation DOMA is closed, legal discrimination against homosexual couples (family relations, citizen associations, etc.) without marital status continues. The interests and responsibilities of federal law are related to "marriage". This means that domestic partnerships and couple of citizen associations will not benefit from Windsor's decision. The Supreme Court ruled that the federal government denies that it is unconstitutional to admit marriage when a country approves marriage. However, even if Edith and Seaa are members of a domestic partnership or union registered in the country, we need to pay taxes. Unmarried couples will still face the inheritance tax that Edith experienced