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Family

Dec. 14, 2006

Recognizing Civil Domestic Partnerships Without Sex or Religion

FORUM COLUMN - By Kenneth G. Petrulis - A nondiscriminatory form of civil domestic partnership is the answer to family partners' needs, not same-sex marriage.

Forum Column

By Kenneth G. Petrulis
     
      A nondiscriminatory form of civil domestic partnership is the answer to family partners' needs, not same-sex marriage. The California domestic partnership law and same-sex marriage, in their commonly understood form, require or assume a sexual relationship between the partners. In this respect they discriminate against partners who don't want or are forbid...

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