American Bar Association: LGBT people entitled to basic human rights & protections

[jillian]

Marriage is a LEGAL contract. Recognized by the federal government and the state governments and as such certain benefits apply vs unmarried people. Therefore government must be involved. It is also a CIVIL RIGHT S issue. It is difficult to understand why a gay couple should not have the same rights and protections under the law as married people. Why are we still discriminating against gays? See my prior post.

I should also add income tax benefits to the list above.

and social security and pension benefits and many other of the over 1,000 rights and obligations that are attached to the status of marriage as defined by state and federal law.