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Currently in the United States, same-sex couples in long-term, committed relationships pay higher taxes and are denied basic protections, benefits and rights granted to married straight couples. Among them:

1. Hospital visitation. Married couples have the automatic right to visit each other in the hospital and make medical decisions. Same-sex couples can be d... more >

Currently in the United States, same-sex couples in long-term, committed relationships pay higher taxes and are denied basic protections, benefits and rights granted to married straight couples. Among them:

1. Hospital visitation. Married couples have the automatic right to visit each other in the hospital and make medical decisions. Same-sex couples can be denied the right to visit a sick or injured loved one in the hospital.

2. Social Security benefits. Married people receive Social Security payments upon the death of a spouse. Despite paying payroll taxes, gay and lesbian partners receive no Social Security survivor benefits — resulting in an average annual income loss of $5,528 upon the death of a partner.

3. Immigration. Americans in bi-national relationships are not permitted to petition for their same-sex partners to immigrate. As a result, they are often forced to separate or move to another country.

4. Health insurance. Many public and private employers provide medical coverage to the spouses of their employees, but most employers do not provide coverage to the life partners of gay and lesbian employees. Gay and lesbian employees who do receive health coverage for their partners must pay federal income taxes on the value of the insurance.

5. Estate taxes. A married person automatically inherits all the property of his or her deceased spouse without paying estate taxes. A gay or lesbian taxpayer is forced to pay estate taxes on property inherited from a deceased partner.

6. Family leave. Married workers are legally entitled to unpaid leave from their jobs to care for an ill spouse. Gay and lesbian workers are not entitled to family leave to care for their partners.

7. Nursing homes. Married couples have a legal right to live together in nursing homes. The rights of elderly gay or lesbian couples are an uneven patchwork of state laws. Home protection. Laws protect married seniors from being forced to sell their homes to pay high nursing home bills; gay and lesbian seniors have no such protection.

8. Home protection. Laws protect married seniors from being forced to sell their homes to pay high nursing home bills; gay and lesbian seniors have no such protection.

9. Pensions. After the death of a worker, most pension plans pay survivor benefits only to a legal spouse of the participant. Gay and lesbian partners are excluded from such pension benefits.

garysher wrote: "But homosexual marriage is outlawed in America."

That's a blatant lie. Let me educate you and anyone else that comes to the conversation:

Same-sex marriage is legal and performed in CT, IA, MA, NH and VT.

Gay marriage is also legal and recognized in California. Even my marriage to my American husband is legal in the USA. The border guards cong... more >

garysher wrote: "But homosexual marriage is outlawed in America."

That's a blatant lie. Let me educate you and anyone else that comes to the conversation:

Same-sex marriage is legal and performed in CT, IA, MA, NH and VT.

Gay marriage is also legal and recognized in California. Even my marriage to my American husband is legal in the USA. The border guards congratulate us when we come down South to our other home.

WOO HOO! :-)

Proof:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage_in_the_United_States

sass: Marriage for gay Americans is a constitutional and human right..

er no actually that is completely wrong. Unless you mean that homosexuals are free to marry a consenting adult of the opposite sex?

But homosexual marriage is outlawed in America.

It lays abandoned and unrecognised by the US Govt and 30 states have rejected the vile notion of homosexual marr... more >

sass: Marriage for gay Americans is a constitutional and human right..

er no actually that is completely wrong. Unless you mean that homosexuals are free to marry a consenting adult of the opposite sex?

But homosexual marriage is outlawed in America.

It lays abandoned and unrecognised by the US Govt and 30 states have rejected the vile notion of homosexual marriage in just the past few years

Sorry make that 31 - Maine kicked the homosexuals into touch earlier this month!

Another glorious victory for our side!

Marriage for gay Americans is a constitutional and human right..

Whatever your private religious beliefs are on homosexuality, you cannot remain true to our Constitution and its unique message and guarantee of full equality for all its citizens, and continue to actively oppress gay Americans, their constitutional rights to freedom, and the pursuit of their ow... more >

Marriage for gay Americans is a constitutional and human right..

Whatever your private religious beliefs are on homosexuality, you cannot remain true to our Constitution and its unique message and guarantee of full equality for all its citizens, and continue to actively oppress gay Americans, their constitutional rights to freedom, and the pursuit of their own happiness. Otherwise, you allow it to become a worthless piece of paper with no meaning or strength.

Supreme Court 1

We conclude that, in light of the history of pernicious discrimination faced by gay men and lesbians, and because the institution of marriage carries with it a status and significance that the newly created classification of civil union does not embody, the segregation of heterosexual and homosexual couples into separate institutions constitutes a cognizable harm.

for more go to:

http://biblical-lovestory.wetpaint.com/page/Marriage+for+gay+Americans+is+a+constitutional+and+human+right..

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