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Roberts warned that the decision might lead to government sanctions for religious institutions, such as a college that provides married student housing only to opposite-sex married couples or a religious adoption agency that declines to place children with same-sex couples.
The bill, which already passed in the state's House of Representatives and which the governor said he was likely to sign, grants gay and lesbian couples most of the rights and benefits that Rhode Island provides married couples.
Many people already know that the U.S. government provides married couples with many privileges not given to singles.
"Hard questions arise when people of faith exercise religion in ways that may be seen to conflict with the new right to same-sex marriage — when, for example, a religious college provides married student housing only to opposite-sex couples, or a religious adoption agency declines to place children with same-sex married couples," Roberts wrote in a dissent joined by three other justices.
Overall, results support our hypothesis that compact development provides married couples greater flexibility in how they divide household out-of-home activities by making destinations more convenient and lowering the overall spatial fixity of these activities.
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The measure would have granted to gay couples the same rights and benefits that the state provides to married couples.
The measure would grant gay and straight couples the same rights and benefits the state provides to married couples.
The state's House of Representatives indefinitely postponed a vote on a bill to grant gay couples the same rights and benefits the state provides to married couples, effectively killing the measure.
The measure, which grants gay and lesbian couples the same rights and benefits that are provided to married couples, has divided the state for nearly two decades.
The bill would provide a married couple with two children and income of $100,000 with a tax cut of $911 this year and $2,790 a year once fully phased in, according to calculations by Deloitte & Touche, the accounting firm.
Although the court did not hold (nor were they asked to) that there is a federal constitutional right to same-sex marriage, the ruling, if upheld on appeal, would allow, say, a same-sex couple legally married in New York to file a federal joint tax return and get whatever other federal benefits are provided for married couples.
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