So you wanted marriage eh? Well now you got it… have fun with it…

Corning, I.B.M. and Raytheon all provide domestic partner benefits to employees with same-sex partners in states where they cannot marry. But now that they can legally wed in New York, five other states and the District of Columbia, they will be required to do so if they want their partner to be covered for a routine checkup or a root canal.

Seems by asking for the right to acquire access to an outdated institution, gays are helping bolster the antiquated idea that without government sanction, a relationship isn’t valid. And now they (along with the rest of us) are gonna have to suffer. Lovely… just lovely…

The article (although the NY Times will probably lock it off soon).