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In New Hampshire, same-sex couples had a unique way of ringing in the New Year. Nearly 40 held civil union ceremonies at the State House, making a sobering statement about the arrival New Hampshire's civil union law, which went into effect January 1. Despite the great lengths liberals took to pass the law, only 100 couples have reportedly taken advantage of the special status. The Associated Press reports a prediction that 3,500 to 4,000 civil unions will be performed this year--which is laughable, given that the 2000 census reported only 2,703 same-sex partner couples in the state. Same-sex couples in neighboring Vermont and Massachusetts have been mostly uninterested in seeking the legal recognition for which they fought politically and legally, with only about forty percent formalizing their relationships. Ironically, the newest front in the war to win same-sex "marriage" is a battle to obtain same-sex divorce. In today's Washington Post, one of the feature stories decried the recent court ruling which refused to grant a divorce to two Rhode Island lesbians who were married in Massachusetts. The article goes on at great length about the various legal problems faced by same-sex couples who can't get a divorce--without ever mentioning that they are exactly the same problems faced by cohabiting heterosexual couples who break up. Yet many of the strongest advocates of same-sex "marriage" refuse to say a word against opposite-sex cohabitation. The story ends with a law professor's plea that even states that oppose same-sex marriage should allow same-sex divorce. But recognition of such relationships to dissolve them is merely a Trojan horse for recognition to create them.
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Same-Sex Divorce Challenges the Legal System [Washington Post]