This article describes the actions of a New York City clerk’s office and how they are allowing gay couples a domestic ceremony. Since then the office has only been allowed to hand out certificates of marriage to the couples. The city mended their rules some and the office took advantage of it. They are now adding what they call “fanfare” to the unions and to conduct marriage-like ceremonies to the gay couples. The domestic couples still don’t receive the same all the rights that married couple does they are allowed to receive hospital visitation and health benefits.
My thoughts on this article are that this is a good step towards less and less discrimination. These ceremonies are probably making the gay couples very happy yet I can see why they want more. They should have the right to have the same ceremony that a regular couple does for marriage. If not, it’s like saying that a black person can’t get married to a white person. And that would be a big taboo around the country. Uproars would start and all hell would break lose. However for the gay couples…well they just don’t even get a change because it is still against the law for them to even be together.
http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/06/03/ny-to-conduct-civil-ceremonies-for-gay-couples/?hpt=Sbin
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