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Originally posted by bilmore
Had they included the words "other than marriage" or something to that effect, yeah. But I think her point is that they've left at least a colorable argument that marriage is gone, and I think she's correct.
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Well, I certainly agree the time to remove ambiguities is now, and not after the thing passes (which hopefully it will not do). My point, though, on the construction is that use of "identical" implies something other than marriage, so you don't need that additional language. I know we like to draft everything with belt and suspenders, but to make the reverse argument, if they had meant to eliminate marriage they should have said (I paraphrase) "will not recognize marriage or anything similar"; you would not need "identical" at all.
