Why would hospitals have no choice but to go by those agreements? Where are you getting that?
And corporations? Would they have no choice but to go by the contract they are not party to, so as to give retirement benefits to the so-called life-partner of a dead employee of theirs? Nice try.
With all due respect, Cherny's the lawyer here. So let's take a look at the issue of contracts with an eye towards giving him the benefit of the doubt.
In any event, and not to steer the conversation in one way or another, but the fantasy realm of Marriage Should Be Abolished Altogether or The Government Should Get Out of the Marriage Business Altogther is the same realm where Jim Sturgess falls madly in love with me, making the issue of gay marriage one I barely care about anymore.
ETA: posted at the same time as Cherny's, so he most likely addressed G.D. with far better logic than I.
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