Re: OT - This just in...

From: Phyllis (phyllisnilsson_at_buckeye-express.com)
Date: 09/11/04 

Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 09:10:08 -0400

An increase of 2-5% of the population on Social Security is a very big
number and will certainly affect the benefits received by everyone (if
they are willing to rewrite and we aren't sure at this point they will).

The other things you mention are also going to cost a very large amount
of money in benefits. Those who are not gay and do not have the
privilege of marrying someone from the same sex for convenience and/or
monetary reasons, may have their own benefits reduced or eliminated.

The others that you mention that are a "bother" for gays have to be
entered into by anyone not a spouse, but are members of the person's
family (siblings, aunts, uncles, etc). If it isn't too much of a
"bother" for them, then why should it be for anyone else?

Josh Rosenbluth wrote:
>

> Nonsense. Gays are about 2-5% of the population. Allowing same-sex
> civil marriage will have very little effect on Social Security's
> solvancy.
>
> Among the things that marriage brings are: tax law treatment, Social
> Security spousal beneifts, veterans spousal benefits, health insurance
> spousal benefits, family and medical leave, sponsoring their alien
> partner for a green card, preference for adoption, automatic
> inheritance, automatic visitation rights, automatic power of attorney,
> and 5th Amendment spousal-incrimination priveleges.
>
> Only inheritance, visitation rights, and power of attorney can be
> privately contracted (through a pain-in-the-ass process that can still
> be challenged in court by family members). Why bother when there is
> no good reason to not have same-sex civil marriage? Not to mention
> all of those other things which require civil marriage.
>
> Josh Rosenbluth

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    ... >> The point is, gays can marry, they just cannot marry ... >> change what the federal government will do with Social Security. ... >civil marriage will have very little effect on Social Security's ... >Security spousal beneifts, veterans spousal benefits, health insurance ...
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  • Re: OT - This just in...
    ... Josh Rosenbluth wrote: ... >>change what the federal government will do with Social Security. ... > civil marriage will have very little effect on Social Security's ... > Security spousal beneifts, veterans spousal benefits, health insurance ...
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