why do gay people want to get married so bad?

FuzzyKen

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The main reasons all relate to taxation and spousal rights. Right now based on Federal Legal definitions and on some state laws there are rights that gay couples cannot have even under contract.

As a gay couple about the best you can get contractually is about 80% of the rights that heterosexual couples are afforded.

I can go down a list of some of them but to keep it simple the big gripes come from the taxation and marriage spousal rights issues. That is it.
 
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Spouses have or are entitled to:
  • visitation rights and can make medical decisions, unless otherwise specified in a living will
  • benefits for federal employees -- many of which are also offered by private employers -- such as sick leave, bereavement leave, days off for the birth of a child, pension and retirement benefits, family health insurance plans
  • some property and inheritance rights, even in the absence of a will

  • the ability to create life insurance trusts
  • tax benefits, such as being able to give tax free gifts to a spouse and to file joint tax returns
  • the ability to receive Medicare, Social Security, disability and veteran's benefits for a spouse
  • discount or family rates for auto, health and homeowners insurance
  • immigration and residency benefits, making it easier to bring a spouse to the U.S. from abroad
  • visiting rights in jail
Social scientists have also found many positive benefits for married couples and families, including fewer incidents of poverty and mental health problems in families where the parents are married rather than simply cohabitating. Many studies also support the idea that children living with married parents do better in a variety of ways than children in any other living arrangement [ref].

without these rights and benefits. gay people have to
hide all our money
and one of the couple needs to cry impoverished
get food stamps, section 8 housing, medicare,
while the other holding the money shacks up being a non-existing
squatter

hate to say it

but it is the only way to level the playing field
all at the expense of the married tax payers

while paying for a cruise to the greek isles from the money pot that the squatter has!

now do we get to get married and file joint tax returns yet?
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I do want to marry my boyfriend. I even ask him to call me his man/husband now because it is so much more romantic, commited and serious. We are both monogamous and have been together for 3 years. If you don't want to get married yet maybe you are not marriage material or you haven't found someone who is marriage material.
 
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The question lacks understanding of the varieties of human relationships. I know of two couples, long married where one member was gay. case the other partner was aware of this and adjusted to it. When the gay husband in one of these relationships lost his wife to cancer recently, his grief was obvious to anyone who knew him. He didn't know whether he was capable of living without her. Did she know that he played around with guys? Yes. So why did they marry? His answer was simple — "we loved each other." So they adjusted. Anyone who knew them knew it was a happy and supportive marriage
 
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