Think Marriage Doesn’t Matter? The Government Knows It Does: Twice, once in 1997, and most recently, in 2004, the United States’ General Accounting Office (GAO) issued a report that “identified a total of 1,138 federal statutory provisions classified to the United States Code in which marital status is a factor in determining or receiving benefits, rights, and privileges.” That means there are 1138 benefits, rights, and privileges that gay people are denied simply because they cannot be legally married and have their marriage recognized by the federal government. Yes, that includes gay marriages in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and now, Iowa. Want to know more? Take a look at the report at here, or visit Equality Matters for even more.
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