U.S. Supreme Court Votes Gay Marriage Constitutional and Legal

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mornelithe said:

Wonktonodi said:

people haven't been asking for the government for the right to commit to one another, they have been asking for the government to grant them the same rights and benefits that others who were allowed to marry had. That doesn't give the government anymore control over marriage it just increases the number of people who can get married.

There are so many legal rights and benefits that come from marriage so if you take that institution away what would you replace them with? Would you require people to set them all up individually? If you want to do away with them then you would be taking away peoples rights to make the decisions to make that form of commitment to one another

Indeed, over 1100 to be precise.  Not just rights and benefits, but also responsibilities (next of kin, etc...)

What are those benefits?