St. Petersburg, Clearwater and Gulfport already have their own local domestic registries recognizing same-sex marriages.
Now Pinellas County expects to vote in 2013 on a proposal for a countywide domestic registry that grants domestic partners – gay and straight – many of the same rights as married couples.
A public hearing is scheduled for Jan. 15.
Although domestic registries are catching on across the nation, from Key West to Kansas City, Florida has a constitutional amendment defining marriage as the union between a man and a woman.
Should Pinellas County, Florida, adopt a domestic registry? Share your thoughts in the comments below.
Even as Florida counties adopt domestic registries, the state will not recognize them. Do you agree? Leave your views in the comments below.
The provision would allow, in part, domestic partners to make health care decisions for each other, including for end-of-life care, among other things.
Should domestic partners be granted rights now given only to men and women who are married? What do you think?
When reviewing California's Proposition 8 (which restricted marriage to opposite-sex couples), Judge Vaughn R. Walker cited Loving v. Virginia to conclude that "the [constitutional] right to marry protects an individual's choice of marital partner regardless of gender". On more narrow grounds, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed.
Call an attorney and get whatever you want done legally, don't drag the rest of us down your rat hole!
What would those beliefs and morals be, being the fact that most of the founding fathers were not what most would consider christians. There is no mention of God or Lord other than in the proper writing of the dates in the documentation that created this nation. How does pro LGBT businesses make it any easier for people to walk away from their kids. The divorce rate in this country according to the census bureau is 51%. Also how does it promote adultery? Do you have some real facts/statistics that it promotes it more than people who are married? It sounds like you are making an agrument without anything to back said agrument.
How do you know it was an abomination to them? Do you have some documentation or direct quote that says they were against it. I guess those strong "christian" beliefs that are falsely (other than John Adamsn) assumed that the Founding Fathers had are what you are making a judgment on. Then again, lets us follow our Founding Fathers in all waves of thought, make Slavery Legal again, because that wasn't morally wrong to them.
How is this the degradation of society or a few preverse unnatural lifestyles. What happen to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?
Being celibate is the best way to roll. Avoid aids, kids, and a naging partner.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Xq6VStVcY8
With the old Communism history texts there were a lot of "Christian" morals put on our Founding Fathers. But as those restraints were taken off and real research has been put into their past you will see most followed the basic rules of religious code that has been around much longer than the 100 CE/BC that Christianity started. Also how do you know whom the Creator they refer to is. Being "God" isn't mentioned at all. Judaism started roughly 1500 B.C. or Hinduism started around 2000 B.C.. How do we know they were not referring to them. As far as Adultery, most of our Founding Fathers were well into that.
Couldn't find that study. Dan is obviously going with the old U.S. Communism History text which were formatted by the Government to teach Americans that we were in the religious right in our fight against Communism. And the only apple tree story as well.