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[icarus]

Oh wow. BBC News: Gay marriage is about to be legal in the UK.

Thank you to tboy for the heads up.

No time to write as I'm supposed to be doing homework instead of doing what I'm actually doing, which is reading Stargate Atlantis fic, so I'll just repost my celebratory SG-1 fic from when Canada legalized gay marriage (though it had far more implications for SGA than SG-1, and Harry Potter is more effected by this law than SG-1, but anyway)...

Fools Can Dream. PG-13. Jack/Daniel.

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[arclevel.livejournal.com]

But we do have civil partnership in most states in the US.

No, we don't. The majority of states don't have marriage, civil partnership or any other form of legal recognition of gay couples; a quick look showed that only seven do (CA, CT, HA, MA, ME, NJ, VT). I think about two-thirds of the states have laws specifically prohibiting gay marriage, and many of those use language that prevents civil partnerships and the like.

I live in Michigan, one of at least a dozen states with a constitutional provision forbidding gay marriage (and a swing state, too!). The amendment was worded to disallow anything "like marriage" or giving marriage benefits, which not only means no civil partnerships, but also meant that our Attorney General ordered all state-government branches and such to stop providing any benefits for the partners of their employees. I think that decision may have been overturned at some level, but I'm not sure.

[titti]

I don't know if it's only those seven. New York certainly does. Giuliani signed a civil register for the city only back when I still was in law school.

I don't mean to diminish what England is done, but I'm saying it's still not a marriage.