In some states it's legal to discriminate. Among the Citizens for Fiscal Responsibility, I asked Fullerton and Rupp and Hauxwell about homophobic bias. This is a time when we need to support a strong and stable family structure, not to destroy what is left of it. Mahurin, on the other hand, sees the registry as strengthening her family structure. Statistics gathered by researcher Marianne Pennekamp, adjunct professor of psychology at Humboldt State University, confirmed that Humboldt County's birth rate continues its fall as it has through the '90s.
Divorces keep steady pace with marriages.
Over half of our adults are now unmarried, and the number is rising. Given these statistics, maybe we ought to dignify domestic partners by redefining marriage. Anybody who's raised a family knows the thrill hits not when you marry, but when you're walking your first child all night trying to soothe it quiet, and you feel the bills piling up, and you're down to one income, and somebody has to be on duty 24 hours a day. That's when you're entitled to some de jure discrimination. In your favor.