The biggest opponents are the same as in CA mainly, they even hired the same ad company which used the same ads from CA & just changed some of the people in them, but the background ‘couples’ are the same in all. Guess they moved to Maine.

As usual, the ‘anti’ folks consist of a bunch of groups claiming religious affiliation and the spokesMEN are mostly VERY effeminate. Kinda makes you wonder if they’re afraid to ‘come out’. Some are married, but the ones I know personally have what appear to be marriages of convenience to extremely ‘pious’ women. Just my opinion.

My partner and I are also planning several business ventures together and quadrupling (or more) paperwork and accounting hasn’t been a part of our discussions. Now it will be.

It’s discrimination. Period.

One issue that is frequently overlooked in this discussion, aside from the usual issues of regular taxes, taxed DP health benefits, higher tax rates, etc., is the issue of same sex couples who own businesses together.

There are little known laws on the books that allow married couples who own a sole-proprietorship to take advantage of tax loopholes to minimize taxes. As a couple in California who is legally married (one of the lucky “18K”) not only do we get screwed by the above mentioned double bookkeeping and massive overload of paperwork to file multiple copies of tax forms every year, but since we actually own and operate a business together it is even more difficult. We literally have to identify every single penny earned by the company and link it to one or the other of us, so we can put it on the correct Federal tax return, putting an onerous burden on us throughout the year.

Personally, I am still shocked and amazed that anyone, much less a President who claims to be a Constitutional Scholar, can support in any way the travesty known as DOMA when it CLEARLY violates every principle of the “Full Faith and Credit” clause of the Constitution.