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Toward A More Perfect Union: The Road To Marriage Equality For Same-Sex Couples, Jennifer L. Levi
Toward A More Perfect Union: The Road To Marriage Equality For Same-Sex Couples, Jennifer L. Levi
Faculty Scholarship
The Author believes that civil unions have become synonymous with inequality. In this posture, the term inequality should be descriptive rather than subjective. She argues that civil unions relegate gay and lesbian couples to second-class status. However characterized or defined, civil unions are not marriages. Those two statuses are not equivalent; they are not equal. Within that framework, in order for any one person to decide where he or she stands on the issue of whether gay and lesbian couples should be entitled to marriage, civil unions, something else, or nothing, he or she must first understand why marriage matters …
The Debate Over The Denial Of Marriage Rights And Benefits To Same-Sex Couples And Their Children, Liz Seaton
The Debate Over The Denial Of Marriage Rights And Benefits To Same-Sex Couples And Their Children, Liz Seaton
University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class
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