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To: maceng2 who wrote (1060)	8/20/2006 3:01:39 PM
From: Ron	Read Replies (2) of 1695

The situations in the U.S. and the U.K are very different and its hard to compare them. Massachusetts is the only state in the U.S. that allows gay marriage. Also differences in the way we finance health care makes a big difference. Some of the major (if low-key) opponents of gay marriage in this country are large employers who do not want to pay the extra medical insurance premiums for gay married partners. They are required to offer spouses coverage under their group medical insurance plans in most states. As it stands now, at most American companies, only hetero married couples are covered by group insurance. No gay partners need apply. Some companies do offer coverage to gay partners but they are usually those with headquarters in other, more liberal countries, such as Glaxo SmithKline, for example. Statistically the percentage of gay people in the general population is rather small. I think its a tempest in a tea pot and mostly used as a club to get the attention of fundamentalist conservatives by right wing strategists. en.wikipedia.org

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