Essay talk:What's Wrong With Using a New Word for financially motivated unions?

Does that include marriage?DocSock 11:24, 30 May 2007 (CDT)


 * Presumably this would include the famed "marriages of convenience" in order to get citizenship for one "spouse". Then there's the oft-reported "beard" marriages, where a homosexual marries a complicit heterosexual (or a homosexual of the opposite sex) in order to gain certain benefits and social cover.  But of course, those variations on marriage are still traditional, because all that matters are the genitals of those involved. --Kels 11:25, 30 May 2007 (CDT)
 * Yes, The Teamsters just doesn't have the same "ring" it used to have. Cracker 12:13, 30 May 2007 (CDT)
 * Heh. And how about those celebrity marriages that last less time than the magazine articles about them? --Gulik 12:34, 30 May 2007 (CDT)


 * Some of the gay folks I know are seriously opposed to this, on the grounds it's "separate but equal" treatment--you know, like Negroes had in the South? --Gulik 12:34, 30 May 2007 (CDT)

No one has mentioned a version of this that at least gets talked about in the States - marrying in order to share health benefits provided by one of the partners' jobs. human be in 12:41, 30 May 2007 (CDT)

When I lived in cali, my live-in gf, and then fiancee (same person) was covered under my health insurance. When i moved to chicago, she couldn't be covered because we weren't married, although we had lived together for about 4 years. Pain in the ass. We couldn't really afford the time or money for a marriage until another year later.--PalMD-yada yada 12:43, 30 May 2007 (CDT)