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Okay, I admit that I don’t get it. Like Reen<\/a>, I don’t understand the difference between cohabiting domestic partnership, complete with ceremonies and alimony and child support and full legal protection — and marriage. This article<\/a> really doesn’t explain it — but it should serve as a shot across the bow of conservatives who don’t <\/i>think that such domestic partnership arrangements — whatever the genders involved — are turning into just what they feared: de facto <\/i>marriage, recognized as such by society and the courts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Okay, I admit that I don’t get it. 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