Prop 8 is to get a ruling today

[Kevin]

From a policy standpoint, I will say that I'm in favor of marriage between any two consenting adults.

Right now, I'm representing a woman who after more than a decade with her partner, decided to call it quits. Both ladies are professionals, pay their taxes, have good jobs, are highly educated, and most of all, have lots of stuff. They did do a reasonably good job of estate planning, placed their home into joint tenancy, but my client, the one who left, is at an extreme disadvantage because there is no legal remedy designed for this situation. Therefore, if we do not get what we want in settlement, we have to go pounding a square peg into a round hole by filing a dissolution of partnership action. I very much do not want to have to appear before the District Judge in the relevant county (which is a small, extremely conservative county) with an action designed for unwinding businesses, which will essentially be a divorce proceeding.

I shudder to think at what would happen, if, for example, one of them (as both of them couldn't) adopted a child or gave birth and raised a child. The child would at this point be nearly a decade old and the non-adoptive parent/non biological mother would have zero parental rights.

And God forbid one of them predeceased the other during the relationship without leaving a will.

The legal system often lags behind the times. In this particular instance, the legal system REALLY lags behind the times. You may not morally agree with what these folks are doing, but you can at least acknowledge that they should be afforded the opportunity to have the same legal rights and standing and protections as everyone else.