Marriage Inequality Presents Real Hardships

The US Government has identified over 1,000 protections, benefits, and responsibilities that civil marriage provides for committed couples and their children. These range from hospital visitation and decision-making to inheritance to parenting. Gay and lesbian couples now face problems and challenges that other families don’t. Getting health insurance can be difficult. Partners can be denied hospital visitation rights, or the right to make key decisions when one of them is disabled. These families deserve the same level of protection as heterosexual couples. This is about ending discrimination faced by tens of thousands of families every day.