Quote:Especially if you're not the one getting married.

 

You wanna solve the problem of "gay marriage?"  Make healthcare affordable and make it easier to name someone to get benefits that would be due to a spouse.

 

In a rarity, I'm with Eric:  There should be no legal benefit to being married.  Only a religious one.

 

I think anonymous' post, which was largely ignored, needs to be reiterated.

 

It seems to me that this "battle" over marriage equality is rooted largely in the socioeconomic benefits (or lack thereof) associated with being married. Access to health care, property rights, tax breaks, etc. It isn't really the name that's the issue, its the rights and privileges associated with that name under the law that is. Once everyone figures this out on both sides, and gets out of their own way, this will quickly become a non-issue.

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