Just saying it works in case of financial strain too.
If one party has a really bad credit, there is no reason to ruin the other one’s chances for just one single paper.This is good advice for every adult, straight or otherwise. Makes things a lot easier.
Beat me to it. Don’t not do this stuff just because you’re married to someone of the other sex.
FYI: Marriage equality became a national debate because an insurance company tried to get out of paying benefits to a same-sex partner, saying their marriage was not federally recognised. Note that they had no problem taking the payments for decades. They just didn’t want to hold up their end of the deal.
Churches really didn’t care as long as same-sex couples didn’t ask to get married at conservative churches. Progressive churches were doing it and a lot of same-sex couples just had private ceremonies. Churches only cared when insurance companies started paying them to, and then, it was only mega churches. Your average Christian, at worst, would say “the Bible says same-sex unions are sinful but we’re taught to hate the sin and love the sinner.” A roundabout way of saying “keep bedroom stuff in the bedroom and we’re cool.”
It was all ever about money, same as it ever was.
Most documents designating a same-sex partner can be ruled illegal, or null and void, by the authoritarians, fascists, whatever you want to call them. Or just “bigots” is fine.
All my best to the LGBTQ+ people going through rough times because their country’s leader is a turd.
In Northern Ireland, the Asher’s bakery case was quite influential. In short - a gay man requests a Christian bakery (Asher’s Bakery) to bake him a cake which is emblazoned quite literally with the words “support gay marriage” - the bakery refuses and refunds, gay man sues them for “homphobia”, half a million pound later and the Supreme Court of The United Kingdom gets involved and rules in Asher’s favour. Shortly after, same-sex marriage is legalised in the province (although by Westminster). I think that whole case which ensued for nearly half a decade essentially removed the Christian Majority’s ease of “it won’t affect us”.
Now nobody really cares too much anyway about it, Churches aren’t obligated and generally don’t carry out such ceremonies, barring some fringe groups
