Articles
Business Impact of Marriage Equality
Extending marriage to same-sex couples will have a negligible impact on the cost of providing employee benefits, and will decrease the tax burden for providing domestic partner benefits.Business Impact of Anti-Marriage Amendments
Federal or state constitutional amendments banning marriage for same-sex couples could adversely affect businesses.
Federal Benefits
Although the federal government has taken the lead in protecting many minority groups from discrimination, it has not only failed to do so for lesbian and gay families, but actually penalizes same-sex couples for being unable to marry.Social Science Research
All major research studies, including a 2001 meta-analysis of two decades of studies on the topic, show that the sexual orientation of a parent is irrelevant to the development of a child’s mental health and social development and to the quality of a parent-child relationship.
Marriage and Coming Out as Transgender
Some transgender people come out only after years of denial, having spent many of those years in heterosexual marriages, sometimes with children.