Marriage equality is both a recognition that same-sex couples deserve the same legal status and protections as opposite-sex couples, and a flashpoint revealing deeper questions about whether the state should define belonging and kinship at all. Winning this right exposed both the hunger for institutional recognition and the ways equality law can leave other forms of intimate life—chosen families, economically vulnerable partnerships—still unprotected.
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