>>>I never really understood what the problem was with civil unions anyhow.
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>>http://lesbianlife.about.com/od/wedding/f/MarriageBenefit.htm
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>>Question: What are the legal benefits of marriage?
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>>Answer: According to Lambda Legal Defense, more than 1,400 legal
>>rights are conferred upon heterosexual married couples in the
>>United States.
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>Yeah, but other than that, what's the big deal?
But surely the idea of a civil union is to confer those legal rights on couples in a recognised civil union? So the question is, what's the difference, in law, between a civil union and a marriage?
Bill Bartlett Bracknell Tas