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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

actually, the rates are about 50% of marriages end, which means you have a 50/50 chance that it will not end. good odds.

Gays want marriage because hospitals, governments, etc will not recognize their right to care for, decide medical issues, or participate in their health insurance etc of their partner.

countless homosexual partners are banned from visiting their dying partner, because they are not next of kin, or legal spouse.

they have no power in the "legal" world, especially seeing as how being gay was straight up illegal, and still is in many places.

Marriage confers certain rights as to adoption, inheritance, etc, shit that straight people take for granted.

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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

weddings have not always been religious either.

in fact, in USA, a marriage is a legal contract, which you have to swear an oath to get before you have a wedding ceremony. There are official paperworks, and documents, and in some places blood tests.

also, if you are a man and live with a woman, or vice versa, for oevr 6 months, sharing expenses for living, you are automatically treated as common-law married. and common law spouses does not apply to gays living with each other and sharing expenses for years or decades.

it is straight up discrimination.

and yes.

case closed