[icwhatudo]

"must show they have a common residence (with some exceptions related to work or financial circumstances), that neither is married or in a domestic partner relationship with someone else, and that they generally share responsibility for a ‘significant measure of each other’s common welfare and financial obligations."

So a single child taking care of an elderly widowed parent would qualify? Seems like an equal protection issue if this bill discriminates against other types of "partnerships.

[goldstategop]

I find that clause interesting. Are liberals admitting same sex marriage is not really marriage? But they don’t see their own hypocrisy on display there, in black and white. If I was gay, I would be outraged at liberal homophobia codified into our nation’s laws!

[takenoprisoner]

“Seems like an equal protection issue if this bill discriminates against other types of “partnerships. “

It would be discrimination against a child who financially supports their parent/s who live with them, and vice versa.
Where a parent supports an adult son, or daughter.

If the federal govt is going to open pandora’s box, then let the discriminatory civil actions begin.