A federal court has ruled that Oregon’s domestic partnership law should go into effect, as it was originally scheduled to do on January 2, 2008. via Basic Rights Oregon.
Tags: LGBT, Oregon, Social JusticeJudge Michael Mosman ruled at 4:25 PM today that opponents of domestic partnership did, indeed, fail to gather the necessary signatures to place the law on the ballot for referendum.
The law takes effect immediately, so county offices will begin to issue domestic partnerships on Monday morning at 9 AM. While domestic partnerships fall short of full marriage rights, they do provide important protections like hospital visitation rights, the ability to make medical decisions for an ailing partner, and estate inheritance.
Awesome!
About time!
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Ditto! Our generation’s civil rights movement moves ahead.
It still amazes me that this is even an issue. I firmly believe that no marriage should ever be recognized by our governments–instead only civil unions between two consenting adults. If you want to call your union a marriage then that’s completely up to you. Our government should not care one way or the other.