n of their sexual union, 2) legal enforcement of
             their mutual obligation to financially support each other,
             3) automatic guardianship and custody of the children of that
             union, 4) improved ability to adopt the children of others,
             5) legal enforcement of their mutual obligation to support their
             children, 6) legal recognition of their constitutionality and the
             constitutional sanctity and importance of their marriage,
             7) insurable interests in each others lives, 8) next-of-kin status in
             medical emergencies, and, 9) in the event of death, the right to
             one-half of each other's estate."
             (www.clark.net/pub/quaker "Love and the Law")
             These rights are for all people who love each other. Not only heterosexuals.
             In 1988, three homosexual teachers from New York sued the Board of Education. All three of these teachers had live-in same-sex partners. They sued on the grounds that because the Board of Education did not give them the same benefits as married heterosexual couples, they were
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