It strikes me..................
The parties to such a relationship are surely perfectly clear on the legal situation surrounding it. So they didn't have the legal option to get married. Don't you think they knew that? Did they enter into the situation assuming that the State would treat them the same as a husband and wife? I don't think so. Did they take any steps to make the child a legal dependant of the trooper? Could they file a joint tax return? Could they if they were an unmarried heterosexual couple? While the debate as to whether or not homosexuality is genetic or a choice, right or wrong, legal or illegal will continue for who knows how long, the bottom line is they must have, or certainly should have, known what they were getting into. If they made no contingency plan, like life insurance with each as the other's beneficiary, for the purposes of this discussion they are no different than a man and a women living together who had also made no such plan.
Or.........maybe they woke up one morning to the realization they were gay and decided to cohabit with no thought as to the ramifications.
DRob
Again, though, what you're saying ignores the point that if Kelly were a woman, they would have had the choice to get married, and Kelly would have gotten benefits..................................
The parties to such a relationship are surely perfectly clear on the legal situation surrounding it. So they didn't have the legal option to get married. Don't you think they knew that? Did they enter into the situation assuming that the State would treat them the same as a husband and wife? I don't think so. Did they take any steps to make the child a legal dependant of the trooper? Could they file a joint tax return? Could they if they were an unmarried heterosexual couple? While the debate as to whether or not homosexuality is genetic or a choice, right or wrong, legal or illegal will continue for who knows how long, the bottom line is they must have, or certainly should have, known what they were getting into. If they made no contingency plan, like life insurance with each as the other's beneficiary, for the purposes of this discussion they are no different than a man and a women living together who had also made no such plan.
Or.........maybe they woke up one morning to the realization they were gay and decided to cohabit with no thought as to the ramifications.
DRob