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No, they want the same recognition of their love that opposite-sex couples have.
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Sounds to me like bisexuals who decided to restrict themselves to opposite-sex partners, regardless of how many exclamation points youadd.
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The other key claim is that only opposite-sex couples provide an appropriate and legally valid environment in which to raise children.
Jonathan Weiler: On North Carolina's Especially Disturbing "Defense of Marriage" Amendment Jonathan Weiler 2012
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It will be conclusive proof that the whole enterprise is worthless, and they might abolish opposite-sex marriage altogether.
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On the specific question of whether same-sex couples can raise children successfully, the supporters of Proposition 8 failed to produce any compelling evidence that same-sex couples were less equipped than were opposite-sex couples.
Jonathan Weiler: On North Carolina's Especially Disturbing "Defense of Marriage" Amendment Jonathan Weiler 2012
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By that reasoning, any opposite-sex marriages couplings not capable of biological production of children should be barred.
Jonathan Weiler: On North Carolina's Especially Disturbing "Defense of Marriage" Amendment Jonathan Weiler 2012
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It has always been a problem for unmarried opposite-sex couples in long-term committed relationships, too.
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'Act 1 directly and substantially burdens the privacy rights of 'opposite-sex and same-sex individuals' who engage in private, consensual sexual conduct in the bedroom by foreclosing their eligibility to foster or adopt children, should they choose to cohabit with their sexual partner,' concluded the court in the ruling.
HUFFPOST HILL - House Passes Meaningless CR Eliot Nelson 2011
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Marriage refers to opposite-sex unions because same-sex unions have been normatively excluded from the insitutions to which the word refers.
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I hope no opposite-sex married couple ever gets divorced.
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