Since these tax rules only work on unwinding a legal marriage and not on any form of cohabitation, they remain a gross tax inequity the gay marriage debate has never thoroughly addressed.
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"If courts create their own arbitrary definition of marriage as a mere legal contract and cut marriage off from its cultural, religious and natural roots, then the meaning of marriage is lost, and the institution is weakened, " he said.
The legal age of marriage would be lowered to puberty, as in the Prophet's time.
New York Gov. David Paterson introduced legislation in April to make same-sex marriage legal in his state.
The legal aspects of marriage are now much more focused on family maintenance rather than property rights.
Washington governor Chris Gregoire signed legislation today making same-sex-marriage legal for Washingtonians.
The removal of discrimination against same-sex couples in the current legal definition of marriage, the government argues, might therefore improve public health.
So even where gay couples enjoy all the legal benefits of marriage under state law, they do not enjoy equality under federal law.
Ahead of that debate last October, the Presbyterian church wrote to all assembly members stating its opposition to any change in the legal definition of marriage.
But eventually he decided to leave the Mormon Church entirely because of the stance it took on a proposition to make gay marriage legal in California.
Ahead of Monday's debate, the Presbyterian Church had written to all assembly members stating its opposition to any change in the current legal definition of marriage.
"In Bangladesh, the legal age for marriage is 18 for girls and 21 for boys, so there's nothing wrong with the law, it's in the implementation, " says Hall.
In addition to upholding the ban and invalidating prohibitions everywhere, the justices could endorse an appeals court ruling that would make same-sex marriage legal in California but apply only to that state.
"California law provides to same-sex couples registered as domestic partners all the legal incidents of marriage, but it nonetheless denies them the designation of marriage allowed to their opposite-sex counterparts, " the brief says.
The amendment should fully protect marriage, while leaving the state legislatures free to make their own choices in defining legal arrangements other than marriage.
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, while now engaged, have reportedly postponed marriage until same-sex marriage is legal under federal law.
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Earlier this year transsexual Elizabeth Bellinger and her husband Michael lost their battle to have their 22-year marriage declared legal.
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States could still, they claim, write their own laws granting gays some legal rights short of marriage, as Vermont has done.
If the government's plans become law, the UK will join a select group of 12 countries where same-sex marriage is legal.
But the year that gay marriage became legal in Massachusetts, the number of couples getting civil unions in Vermont dropped by half.
So should we anticipate that at some point in the future, he is likely to feel comfortable with gay marriage being legal?
Ten years ago, same-sex marriage was legal nowhere in the United States.
Roughly 18, 000 couples were wed in the nearly five months that same-sex marriage was legal and those marriages remain valid in California.
France would then join 11 other countries where same-sex marriage is legal.
Fifty-eight percent now thinks same sex marriage is legal, 36 percent, illegal.
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Same-sex marriage is legal in nine states and the District of Columbia.
Some were of the same sex, including many in Washington, Maine and Maryland, where same-sex marriage became legal in November.
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Massachusetts is still the only state where same-sex marriage is legal.
Kevin Smith, a family-values campaigner in New Hampshire, worries that when gay marriage is legal, children will be taught in schools that it is acceptable.
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