Originally Posted by **Jen** Bluebee, my company gives insurance to Partners male or female as long as they give proof they are living together for a certain amount of time. I don't understand why your husband's company will only give insurance to a gay partner? That sounds a little conflicting to me. Not sure if I read that your post correctly. Basically his insurance company will allow for same sex partners to be placed on a company insurance but a couple (male/female) are unable to do this unless they are married. Ex: If a lesbian couple have been living together for 6 months, she can put her partner on her insurance plan. However, a boyfriend can not put his girlfriend or fiancee (no matter how long they have been together) on the insurance until they get married.
Originally Posted by wongy74 The United States Constitution guarantees the right to marry. Therefore, it should not matter what race, gender, religion, etc. the couple may be. Right or wrong, moral or immoral- that is not the issue to me. It is the law and the law should be as it stands and upheld as it stands today.
Moreover, denying homosexuals the right to marry is discrimination, much like the discrimination against African-Americans that took place in this country. In earlier years, some people had believed that marriages between races was "unnatural." For instance, in Loving v Virginia (1967), a black woman and a white man had been found guilty of violating Virginia's ban on interracial marriages and ordered to leave the state. The Supreme Court found Virginia's law to violate the Equal Protection Clause because it invidiously classified on the basis of race, but it also indicated the law would violate the Due Process Clause as an undue interference with 'the fundamental freedom" of marriage.
In the end, the marriage was between a MAN & WOMAN. However, I do not recall the United States Constitution "guaranting the right to marry" or even if the word marriage is mentioned in the Constitution but if there is such an admendment, article or bill could you please post it.
P.S. I'm sorry but discrimination against African Americans is in my opinion not the same or even much like discrimination against gays/lesbians. Honestly, I get bothered when people try to compare the two to prove a point being that being gay/lesbian is not an outward apperance. Discrimination only happens to gays/lesbians when they tell that they are gay while discrimination to African Americans happens because one sees your skintone.
