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To: TimF who wrote (225539)	3/22/2005 3:23:16 AM
From: Elroy	Respond to of 1572208

This seems fine to me. But you'd also need a federal civil union law, right, because their are federal laws (primarily relating to taxes) about marriage as well. You would if you assume that it is something that the feds should do, or have an obligation to do. Well, if the feds have an obligation to grant married people certain federal tax status, then they've got the same "obligation" for civil union couples. I'm just saying that in order to make the civil union equal to the traditional marriage in everything but name, you'd need federal civil union laws wherever you have federal marriage laws.