Sherwin Simmons has written a great article discussing the impact of same-gender marriages in the benefits arena. You can access the article here at the PSCA.org site. (Free registration required.)
The same-gender marriage debate has certainly been dominating the news lately:
- The Philadelphia Inquirer is reporting that the Montgomery County District Attorney is threatening to arrest anyone who is associated with a same-gender marriage in his county.
- Eliot Spitzer has weighed in on the subject here, as reported by the Associated Press here.
Also, MSNBC.com is reporting on the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary hearing today: “Senators wrangle over marriage.” You can access information about the hearing entitled “”Judicial Activism vs. Democracy: What are the National Implications of the Massachusetts Goodridge Decision and the Judicial Invalidation of Traditional Marriage Laws?” here as well as testimony given at the hearing. Articles about the hearing:
And, yet with all of this, the real story is in France where one can legally marry, in certain instances, those who have departed this world. You can read the story here: “In France, dead can still get married.”
Finally, I would be remiss if I did not mention Joe Kristan’s discussion at Roth CPA.com here discussing a tax case involving a couple who tried to say they weren’t married for federal income tax purposes. The couple argued that they ‘mistakenly’ represented that they were married on their tax return and that their marriage ceremony in Fiji was merely “to adopt the form of marriage, while negating the substance.” As Joe reports, “[i]t’s a bad sign for you when the judge has this to say about your case”:
Plaintiffs engage in a complex and protracted analysis of cases which might be analogous if their marriage were indeed void, as well as an interesting, diligently researched, and totally irrelevant exploration of inapplicable precedents for determining when a marriage is void due to mistake.