Discover about the variations amongst same-sex marriage, civil unions, and domestic partnerships, plus an overview of the Defense of Marriage Act. Illinois residents who received a civil union elsewhere can upgrade their civil union to a marriage in the same way that any other civil union can be upgraded – via conversion or by way of marriage. You and your spouse will continue to have particular legal responsibilities to every other and neither of you can enter into a marriage or another civil union or substantially comparable legal connection till the marriage is dissolved.

A religious marriage is viewed much more as a spiritual bond and holy vow as commanded by God (or a deity) in which a man and a lady come with each other to make a unified partnership according to their Gods laws and commandments. Countries like Sweden, Argentina and Portugal, where similar-sex marriage is legal, do … Read the rest >>>