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Family/Household Security

Recognizing Diverse Households & Families

Many LGBT advocates suggest that having and exercising the right to marry is the only way LGBT people will gain full equality and access to the 1,138 economic and social protections provided by the federal government to married couples and their children, as well as to those protections provided through private employers or at local and state levels.

Marriage Politics & Economic Justice

Anti-LGBT marriage laws and constitutional amendments provide the legal framework for assaults upon domestic partner benefit plans, reciprocal beneficiary agreements, and other mechanisms that provide households and families headed by unmarried people certain forms of economic support and stability.

What LGBT Communities Can Do

A much more integrated, boldly democratic, pro-LGBT politics of marriage, family, and economic justice is not only possible, but essential. The most important thing we can do is move beyond "either/or" in the marriage debates, reframing the debate to include economic justice and legal recognition for diverse families and households.

Resources

• AFSC's economic justice issue pages >
  Information on economic justice issues in the U.S. and around the world

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