He says the primary argument against gay marriage is that it would de-value heterosexual marriage.
Peter Schiff with the New York Attorney General's office argued that the state legislature has a reason to protect heterosexual marriage.
South Africa will become the fifth country in the world to grant gay couples both the status and attendant rights of a heterosexual marriage.
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With all of this complexity, many same-sex couples find themselves in legal quandaries such as this one, which one would not expect in the course of breaking up a heterosexual marriage.
Perry, a native Californian from Bakersfield, and Stier, who grew up in rural Iowa, moved in together in 2000, with Stier's two children from a heterosexual marriage and Perry's from a previous relationship.
That act defined marriage at the federal level to mean only heterosexual marriage and authorized states to deny recognition to same-sex marriages performed in other states -- even though, at the time, no state had authorized the practice.
Accordingly conservatives that want to worry about marriage should be worrying about the state of straight (heterosexual) marriage.
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And the church's opposition to abortion, contraception and sex (homosexual or heterosexual) outside marriage angers feminists, gays and others.
The Hawaii Supreme Court ruled that restricting marriage to heterosexual couples was sex discrimination.
During a recent appearance on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, " California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger threw cold water on talk of tweaking the Constitution to restrict marriage to heterosexual couples.
When I asked Waldorf about this, he said that in the future the company may look into providing different services, including same-sex, but that at the moment their research was designed specifically for heterosexual couples looking for marriage.
Of the 36 still-active Democrats in Congress who voted for the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, which recognizes only heterosexual marriages, all but nine have since changed to support gay marriage.
"In my younger, more radical days, I felt that marriage was an oppressive, heterosexual institution, and no decent gay person would want to get married, " said Seligman's husband, Silvano Nova, an accessories designer.
Another article says that preference should be given to traditional (ie heterosexual) family relationships, and says that marriage and the parent-child relationship form the basis of the traditional family.
The same-sex marriage measure, they said, would treat homosexual and heterosexual relationships equally before the law.
Assuming a state with a gay majority, would defenders of what is presumed to be traditional marriage smile on its citizens voting away the right of heterosexual couples to marry?
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In today's Arab world, the only socially-accepted context for sex is heterosexual, family-sanctioned, religiously-approved, state-registered marriage a social citadel.
Even after the repeal, gay and lesbian service members will not have every right and privilege accorded to heterosexual members of the military, largely because of the federal Defense of Marriage Act.
But there is also a small but robust cohort of heterosexual couples uneasy about entering what they see as the patriarchal state of marriage, or unwilling to embrace it if their gay friends cannot who want the right to form civil partnerships, currently reserved for same-sex pairs.
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