So marriage equality is sweeping the west. Slowly but surely, state by state and country by country, we are winning, and we are doing so on a platform which says, in effect, “We’re just like you.” Gay couples want to settle down, raise children, say ‘I do’ before their friends and family. They want the […]
Right now it matters, primarily because the state endorses it so fully. If there's ever a way of diminishing that relationship between marital status and financial/tax/residence/kinship statuses then I'm sure the marriage rate will drop accordingly.