1. Any two people should be able to get married.
- whether they are the same sex, same age range, and mostly
whether they are having or planning to have sex or not.

Marriage should be independent of sex. If someone is in a
hospital and have no living relatives, should they be denied
the right to have someone there with the same rights as a family
member would in other people's lives who do have living family?

Should that person have to be having sex with the person in the
hospital? Or should it be the right of two people to join in a
relationship to support each other, file joint tax returns, leave
propterty to each other in the case of death, and every other
legal right that 'married' people have?

OK, call every marriage that is done outside the church as a
civil union and leave 'marriage' to the churches. If you want to
call yourself married, go to a church and get 'married'.

AKA gray asphalt wrote:

These rights should depend on the will of that person, not on some
pre-defined contracts like marriage.

Daniel T. wrote:

OK - I've worked through the (short) list provided on that page. I
don't consider to read thewhole list they are mentioning as reference.

"AKA gray asphalt" hotmail.spam.com> wrote:

Why the two person limit?

"Daniel T." earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:daniel_t-512616.07571028122006@news.west.earthlink.net...

Do you want to be responsible for the debts of a dozen people? I'm not sure
that there is a good reason but it seems like a much bigger step than a two
person marriage, civil union. I should think about that.
Thanks

Daniel T. wrote:

Because it makes enforcement more complicated and I don't wish to spend
my tax dollars on it.

Since we already have the mechanisms for two people, it doesn't cost
any more to extend it as suggested. But beyond that, you get multiple
spouses taking each other to court, for example, over inheritance.

-tg

I think that if anyone wants to have a partnner, same sex or not, and
have a currently live together this one, I can't find any problem to
share the civil rights in the case of death....But whether a person
share your live together a friend, to have sex is not important here,
this person could reclaim any rights? Whether in my case I'm got
marriage, but not in church and Civil laws, but the point is the live
have been shared day by day, I died then she have every rights just
because she is an woman,,,and she was just my friend, or if she has
the same sex..The question person have not any rights? I think yes, she
has...Then why the laws are so ancient? Why the politicals not
improvement the laws seeing the changes of the culture, ways of live?

AKA gray asphalt wrote:

The more people the wider the spread of responsibility..

I'm not sure

In article news.t-online.com>,
"AE" nospam.com> wrote:

Since the question was asked:

On the order of 1,400 legal rights are conferred upon married couples
in the U.S. Typically these are composed of about 400 state benefits
and over 1,000 federal benefits.
-- http://www.religioustolerance.org/mar_bene.htm

In article <1167311508.165265.275710@48g2000cwx.googlegroups.com>,
"tg" earthlink.net> wrote:

Do you wish to spend your tax dollars on 2 person marriage? Wouldn't
outlawing two people (legal) marriages be cheeper than extending them to
same-sex partners?