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Pollitt, Katha | April 29, 1996 issue

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Nowadays one is moving towards a society in which the old forms of human relationships are being disrupted and reshaped, and sooner or later the law must accommodate that reality. Legalizing gay marriage is part of the process, but so is diminishing the increasingly outmoded privileged status of marriage and sharing out its benefits along different, more egalitarian lines. Proponents of same-sex marriage make much of the unfairness of denying gay couples the many rights and privileges awarded to husbands and wives like health insurance, survivors' rights, mutual custody of children and job protection under the Family and Medical Leave Act and so on.

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SAME-sex marriage; LAW; INTERPERSONAL relations; LGBT marriage; HEALTH insurance; CUSTODY of children
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