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07.24.2009 6:00pm EDT
(St. Paul) As of Wednesday, gay couples in St. Paul, Minnesota, can get domestic partnerships. The state capital joined two other cities in that state in approving a resolution that allowed for domestic partnerships.
“Equality is equality is equality,” St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman said during a brief ceremony Wednesday evening at the Camp nightclub. “You can’t have equality for some and not for others.”Gay couples can now purchase certificates for $20 that make their partnership somewhat legal, though it is unclear if the certificate will allow for things such as health benefits can be extended to the couples by the state.
“I think it’s a really good symbolic St. Paul gesture. That’s as far as it goes,” said C.J. Griffiths, 25, of St. Paul.
Read the full Pioneer Press article here.
While a good gesture, it is still not a marriage! Call it what you may, civil union, domestic partnership, civil partnership, whatever, we will not have achieved full equality until our unions are legalized and recognized for what they are and that is marriage! And I do not believe for one moment, that the Gay Community as a whole, will not accept anything less. We have fought for too long and too hard to accept crumbs when we are entitled to the entire slice of bread!
Nice. BUT (BIG OLE BOOTY BUT)
Domestic Partnership is NOT “Equality” Mayor Coleman! Nonetheless, We’ll take all the little scraps you great hetero ones throw at us, until we get enough to make a meal!
Marriage Equality is on its way, the religious right wing nut cases are just prolonging the inevitable!
I think it’s a step in the right direction,but it should be FULL rights and nothing less. We need to keep working towards that goal!!