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Kyleovision:
It would appear that the notion of 'registering' relationships that are not of a marital character has already caught on:

The Advocate:


--- Quote ---Adoption lawyers say adults adopt other adults more often than one might think.

The issue of adult adoptions recently has gotten some national attention. In Maine, the family of an IBM founder is fighting to keep his lesbian daughter's former partner, whom she had adopted, from collecting millions in inheritance. And in the paternity fight for the late Anna Nicole Smith's daughter, one claimant, Prince Frederic von Anhalt, was adopted as an adult, according to various news reports.

There also have been cases of men attempting to adopt their mistresses, a practice state courts have frowned upon as an attempt to weaken spouses' inheritance rights, said adoption expert Joan Heifetz Hollinger, of the University of California-Berkeley's law school.
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vanrozenheim:

--- Quote from: "Kyleovision" ---Like so many autodidacts expressing peculiar theories on just about everything, we are largely 'auto-ethicists' [..] We're used to making up this morality stuff as we go along, puzzling and teasing it out on a case-by-case basis.
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But that's exactly the reason why we have started this thread here. Mind you, you have at least 3 GHF members here - it is among our objectives to make the theory for the nation.  :wink:  Amateurs as we are in so many areas, currently Gay Nationalism has nothing better to come up with.  Like in every nascent legal system, the "founding fathers" give a start of the basic principles on what is "good" and what is "evil" and create a draft of legislation. We will certainly not be able to create a full set of consistent law, but we should have the ambition to consider how "gay legislation" could differ from the "straight legislation". Hummarabi did not have Master degree in Roman Law either.  :wink:


--- Quote from: "Kyleovision" ---We would do well to realize that the population of a Gay Homeland is not going to look like the Castro, or West Hollywood. No, what seems to me the more likely is a Gay State largely populated by refugee Iranians, people from the innumerable here-or-there-a-stans, from Venezuela and Iraq, from the Palestinian Authority, from Fuji and Singapore.
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Yes, but why do you think they are so much different in their perception of the law? Certainly there are differences in habits and morals, but not every aspect of behaviour is significant from the legal viewpoint. Especially in society with mixed cultural background, there must be a clear legal framework established - it would be not really possible to rely on common sense there. The newcomers will have to adopt themselves into existing framework of rules before they can influence them. And who says "westerners" can't learn? We can adopt the confucianism as well, to a certain degree.


--- Quote from: "Feral" ---There is some question as to whether such relationships require government involvement at all. [..] Depending on the laws involved, this is a matter of some importance or great importance.
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For example, what is with such a simple matter as visiting rights in hospital? Of course any friend and partner shall have the right to come for a visit, but what if the person is unconscious and can't confirm the visitor is really a friend and not a total stranger? In a gay village, any legislation on such issues would appear absurd, but in a large city this issue is not entirely artificial. Another example of greate importance, is the integration of new citizens. Would it be sensible to let them just move in and go on at the best of their abilities, or would it be wise to allocate them into sub-communities to undergo basic socialization first? It seems not entirely wild to me that in their first 2 years in their new homeland the newcomers would attend an army-like corps where they would learn language, history, legal system and learn how to socialize with other men. What sounds strange at first to a NY city slicker, would be totally understandable for a guy who has just has escaped Zimbabwe and first needs a therapy to re-gain self-cosciousness and trust in people. The guy from NY would, in turn, learn that there are also other skills than simple money-earning which are of importance. We must examine all such aspects more closely.

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