Letters to the Editor
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HRW report
Cheers to Broadsheet for highlighting this under-reported issue!
Readers who click through to the enews piece will find a link to Human Rights Watch's report, Family Unvalued, on same-sex immigration reform: http://hrw.org/reports/2006/us0506/
Additionally, the Alternatives to Marriage Project - on whose board I serve - is interested in seeing immigration reform that would not require civil marriage. A marriage ceremony in itself does not authenticate a relationship in the eyes of immigration authorities. Couples are required to submit evidence and undergo questioning about their lives together in order to emigrate. As such, the requirement of civil marriage could be dropped altogether. AtMP believes that families come in all shapes and sizes and that the state does not have a place in saying there is only one kind of valid relationship, recognized through marriage. You can learn more about AtMP at www.unmarried.org.
- Jen Gaboury