Another early favourite seems to be the "Of Marriage" section of Khalil Gibran's The Prophet, already popular with straight marriages but taken up by gay men for the section everyone seems to call "Be Like Two Trees": Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping.
If you divide property between spouses (or within limits, even after marriage), Section 1041 of the tax code says there's no tax to either party.
Even the stodgy New York Times marriage section now announces same sex weddings.
In the "Property and Marriage" section, Tanner writes: To cut humanity up into small cliques, and effectively limit the selection of the individual to his own clique, is to postpone the Superman for eons, if not for ever.
Later this month the Supreme Court will hear arguments on two gay-marriage laws: Section 3 of the federal Defence of Marriage Act, which among other things denies various federal benefits and tax breaks to married same-sex couples, and California's Proposition 8, a 2008 ballot measure that banned gay marriage in the state.
Think of all the major policy discussions of the past few weeks: a banking royal commission; reports of abuse of asylum seekers on Nauru; the plebiscite on same sex marriage; repealing section 18c of the Racial Discrimination Act; amending the constitution to recognise Indigenous people; and GST reform.
THE MARRIAGE TEST SECTION A -YOUR READINESS 1) Are you ready to put someone else first?
Rupert Murdoch has announced his engagement to Jerry Hall in the births, marriages and deaths section of the Times newspaper in London.
The announcement in the Births, Marriages and Death section reads: "The engagement is announced between Tom, son of Robert and Debra Daley of Plymouth, and Lance, son of Jeff Bisch of Philadelphia and Anne Bisch of Lake Providence".
The media mogul, 84, and the 59-year-old model placed an advert in the Births, Marriages and Deaths section of the Times newspaper, which is owned by Mr Murdoch's News Corporation.
