🚀 go-pugleaf

mikep@sr.hp.com (Mike Powell) writes:

>David A. Kaye (dk@crl.com) wrote:
>: You might be interested to know that in the years since San Francisco has 
>: had domestic partner registrations (a sort-of marriage license) the VAST 
>: majority of people applying for these registrations have been male/female 
>: couples, not gay male or lesbian couples.  The ratio is something like 8 
>: to 2.  So much for viewing domestic partnerships as a same-sex thing.
>
>	This certainly seems to imply that 'domestic partnership' and
>	similar efforts do indeed devalue marrage... (which is what
>	bothered Wilson the most, leading to the veto domestic partners
>	bill in CA.)  For if most registrants are opposite-sex, then
>	why don't they simply get married?  And if they are not willing
>	to get married, then why should society recognize their
>	relationship?

Perhaps they dislike some of the societal baggage that comes with being 
married.  Maybe they don't want to take advantage of something that's
available to different-gendered couples but not same-gendered couples.
(Those would be a couple of *my* motivations, 'cept there's three of us,
so it's a moot point for the forseeable future.)

Anyway, why does something have to have the Gov't Seal of Approval for
society to "recognize" it?

Bearpaw

+---------------------------------------------------------------+
|          Bearpaw MacDonald  (bearpaw@world.std.com)           |
|               http://world.std.com/~bearpaw/                  |
|      "May accuracy triumph over victory." - M. Stiegler       |
|  Are you responsibly non-monogamous?  I want your story for   |
| my book project, _Open_Hearts_.  Write for info via e-mail or |
| Bearpaw MacDonald, 325 Huntington Ave. #59, Boston, MA  02115 |
+---------------------------------------------------------------+