So let's ignore it. Imagine the delight of the white, sexist, homophobic power structure in seeing LGBT people ask for this subjugation. Controversy organized by Alexander Nguyen. I'll get to how we're winning below. But first let me talk about what we're talking about when we talk about marriage.
Civil marriage is the way law adjudicates an astonishing array of disputes over who counts to whom.
In Pennsylvania a few years ago, Sherry Barone and Cynthia Friedman had been together 13 years when Friedman got cancer. But after Friedman died, the cemetery refused to follow Barone's instructions to inscribe the epitaph Friedman had requested. The widowed Barone had to go to court for a year of legal wrangling before she could honor her dead spouse's wishes. Imagine doing that while you're grieving. M, as she's called in the legal documents, was left without any of her clothes, her furniture, her way of earning a living, with only five dollars and change in her pocket.