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Re:Same-Sex Marriage Is a Right, Supreme Court Rules by unfamiliar on Friday June 26, 2015 @02:24PM (#9786707)
You don't need permission from the government to marry, you can do it yourself in the woods. But if you want all the benefits of a government sanctioned marriage then you have to be married in the eyes of the government.
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Re:Same-Sex Marriage Is a Right, Supreme Court Rules by donatj on Saturday June 27, 2015 @01:02AM (#9789184)
That's why the government version shouldn't be called marriage.
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Re:Same-Sex Marriage Is a Right, Supreme Court Rules by r00fus on Sunday June 28, 2015 @03:18AM (#9792740)
At this point, it's semantics. In France there is a thing called PACS [1], which is kind of what you refer to.

However to make that equivalently semantic "government version" union would require changing of a large amount of legal text (e.g. taxation legislation). If the "government version" was simply a stand-in for "married" (i.e., reusing the variable) then what difference has been achieved even semantically?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_solidarity_pact

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Re:Same-Sex Marriage Is a Right, Supreme Court Rules by jasonjei on Friday June 26, 2015 @02:27PM (#9786728)
I agree. But that's why we have the marriage inequality problem.
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