In some places where same-sex marriage has been legalized, the law is not exactly equal because either joint adoption of children or government-funded fertility treatments are not available to same-sex couples while they are available to heterosexual couples.
anybody has the right to marry except for gays and lesbians.
Marriage would do that. And it has.
Senator Coburn does not support the marriage rights of gays and lesbians.
Gays and lesbians are no longer be second-class citizens.
It doesn't. The legalization of same-sex marriage merely represents an end to the discriminatory exclusion of gays and lesbians from the institution.
gays and lesbians
Neither!!
Gays and lesbians are free to marry and enjoy the legal benefits thereof. Nothing else changes.
Senator Crapo does not support the right of gays and lesbians to marry.
Senator Coats opposes the right of gays and lesbians to marry.
They were not permitted to marry because of widespread bias against gays and lesbians, and the linking of marriage to religion.
For one thing, same-sex marriage is recognized in Canada.