re: #272 ArmyWife

and everything you said can be cleaned up with a POA. EVERYTHING. I know this because something quite similar happened to a great friend of mine - he brought out the POA, and VIOLA, all information on his partner went through him.

These are tear jerking talking points that can be resolved without marriage.

I can give a POA to my next door neighbor. Or my cousin or nephew or sister. Or a total stranger. But in most cases, my spouse doesn’t need one. And many people aren’t even aware of what a POA is.

The fact that gay couples can take legal steps to “fix” some of their disadvantages by acting as if they’re not a couple at all doesn’t do squat to “resolve” the issue, which is that they do not, in fact, have the same rights as hetero couples, no matter how you slice it.