Copy this sentence into your livejournal if you're in a non-same-sex marriage, and you don't want it "protected" by the bigots who think that gay marriage hurts it somehow.
1. marriage is a religious institution, and governments don't do marriages.
2. any church that will marry you means you are married.
3. however, since the government doesn't do marriages, you have to appear before the judge with a standard legal contract, between 2 or more legally consenting adults that specifies *everything*: rights, responsibilities, advance directives, care & custody of the chillins if the contract breaks, support, etc the whole 9 yards, and sign the contract in front of numeri witnesses. like any good contract, it will also have accounting rules and a neutral fund handler, the standard out clauses, and breakup agreements, so that any dissolution is straightforward.
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1. marriage is a religious institution, and governments don't do marriages.
2. any church that will marry you means you are married.
3. however, since the government doesn't do marriages, you have to appear before the judge with a standard legal contract, between 2 or more legally consenting adults that specifies *everything*: rights, responsibilities, advance directives, care & custody of the chillins if the contract breaks, support, etc the whole 9 yards, and sign the contract in front of numeri witnesses. like any good contract, it will also have accounting rules and a neutral fund handler, the standard out clauses, and breakup agreements, so that any dissolution is straightforward.
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