Re: [UUPoly-L] the VP debate last night

[WABaldwin@aol.com]

I'm not a legal scholar (I don't even play one on TV!).
 
It sounded to me like Biden was saying, committed gay couples should get  all 
the benefits of marriage -- but "we won't call it marriage".
 
The reason for "not calling it marriage"? -- "That's an issue for  particular 
faith groups to decide" (that's more or less what he said, as an  
afterthought -- and a rather mumbled one.  Perhaps he was afraid someone  would ask him 
to explain what he meant!).
 
The problem (for me) -- What if my faith group (Unitarian, Pagan) thinks  
it's okay to marry gay couples?  None of the major candidates thinks we  should 
be allowed to!
 
If gay couples are given all the benefits of marriage, and my faith group  
wants to marry them, WHY NOT???
 
Bill
 
In a message dated 10/3/2008 7:28:10 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
slyypper@hotmail.com writes:

Now all  you legal scholars out there:  does Biden's clarification in this 
last  paragraph seem to you to intend pushing for equal access to federal  
entitlement programs like social security & Medicare?   


 



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