”Married people enjoy certain benefits, including tax and estate treatment, visitation, medical benefits offered to heterosexual spouses, child custody rights, etc. Homosexual couples in committed relationships are denied these same benefits, essentially creating a condition that violates the 14th amendment.”
Is there anything in the law that bars non-married people from bequeathing whatever they have to whom so ever they wish?
Maternity leave is not subject to a woman's marital status. Therefore, she is still eligible for maternity leave when the child is born.
Child custody in most states is determined by ‘best interests of the child’, which has frequently gone in favor of a gay parent. There is an obvious distinction in the underlying premise of a heterosexual family that is likely to be founded on the notion of progeny and continuance of a family centered community, verses a more couple centered and one generational homosexual union that is not as likely to be focused on future generations that will continue its fundamental undertaking. A vision of a future is important to model for children and to encourage. Since custody is often granted to a gay parent it is clear that this is not necessarily a contradiction for gay parents.
Is there a law that keeps employers from offering any attractive employment package to prospective employees?
Amendment 14: I presume you are referring to this…
”… No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”
I do not see the connection.
What specifically is being deprived or what specific protection of the law is absent in gay relations?
” The government is conducting unreasonable searches and seizures under the so-called 'Patriot Act', holding suspects incommunicado, without representation or hearing, under antiterrorism laws even when the prisoners are only immigration violators. Prisoners are held neither either Geneva Convention nor constitutional rights, and have reportedly been subject to torture and mistreatment.
I am not up to snuff on the Patriot Act … sorry.
”Conservative lawmakers have proposed an amendment to the Defense of Marriage Act that bars the Supreme Court from ruling the DOMA unconstitutional.”
Anyone can propose whatever they want. Reasonable heads must determine the viability of a proposal before it can be enacted as law. |
