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Protest Rally & Differences in Domestic Partnership verses actual Marriage.
| quote: | Originally posted by Jake Benson
There were mass Anti Prop 8 protests tonight in West Hollywood / Hollywood. |
Thanks for the update, Jake. I posted about the upcoming rally/protest several hours before the event on several websites, including in this thread a couple of pages back. I don't know if it had much effect, but so far I've learned that at least three of my friends who went. I live in Hollywood and I was at the rally to support them also. There were at least five helicopters above us - probably news helicopters and possibly some cop helicopters to watch just in case things got out of hand. I didn't see the unfortunate beat-down of one of the protesters live, but later I saw it on the local news. It almost looked like another Rodney King incident - with three big cops all over one guy and one cop freely using his club despite the fact the victim didn't attack anyone and was merely trying to get back on the sidewalk and join his friends.
In terms of the other posts asking about the difference between NONheterosexual "marriage" verses "domestic partnership" (DP) there are plenty of significant differences. For one, in a DP, the lover's biological family trumps visitation rights and burial rights over that of the "spouse" - in a marriage, the spouse's rights trump that of the other spouse's biological family. Also there is a matter of taxation, which In2Musik brought up several posts back.......
"Here's an article that backs my point up...domestic partners must pay taxes on the employer paid portion (typically 80%) of their health insurance premiums, but married couples do not. In the example below, that amounted to $1,800 per year.
So for everyone who believes that domestic partners have exactly the same benefits as married couples, then all married couples should pay $1,800 more in taxes for their health insurance too, no? Think about it, if you had to take out your checkbook now and pay the IRS for that, then that's the only way things would be "equal" on this one of many issues that separate domestic partnerships from marriages."
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source: http://www.unmarriedamerica.org/mem...er_benefits.htm
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