Same Sex Marriages

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This paper explores the recently passed law in Massachusetts permitting same sex marriages. This paper delves into the basic laws as interpreted in Massachusetts and now a precedent for other states to follow which offers an easy solution to the "heterosexuals only" problem. This paper analyzes the issues now facing same sex couples regarding certain rights and recognition previously accorded to heterosexual couples, including tax relief, hospital visits and real estate purchases. This paper also discusses the various religious views on same sex marriages.

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"We need to confront the real issues, therefore, which may have little if anything to do with sex, or "love" (whatever that definition may be) but with recognition of certain rights, the same as heterosexual couples now have, both in terms of tax relief, will right of survivorship, even hospital visits, real estate purchases, and so on. While more and more states, Texas and Nebraska being two, have "legally" had same sex marriages banned by means of an actual constitutional amendment, or the plans for one, in some cases it seems the states, in their zeal, may have gone too far. "On May 12, U.S. District Court Judge Joseph Bataillon of Lincoln, Neb., struck down Nebraska's constitutional amendment that banned same-sex marriage. Bataillon's ruling in Citizens for Equal Protection v. Bruningdeals in part with the plaintiffs' argument that the amendment deprives same-sex couples of First Amendment rights, creating 'a significant barrier to the plaintiffs' right to petition or to participate in the political process."

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