Your Money - The Higher Lifetime Costs of Being a Gay Couple
Topix Gay News Oct 02 09
Much of the debate over legalizing gay marriage has focused on God and Scripture, the Constitution and equal protection.
But we see the world through the prism of money. And for years, we've heard from gay couples about all the extra health, legal and other costs they bear. So we set out to determine what they were and to come up with a round number - a couple's lifetime cost of being gay.
It was much more complicated than we initially imagined, and that's probably why we've never seen similar efforts. We looked at benefits that routinely go to married heterosexual couples but not to gay couples, like certain Social Security payments. Full story...More stories from topix gay news »
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