No, but if one half of a same sex couple ends up in a hospital, the other half of the couple cannot visit their sick partner. That is my dread fear that my partner will become sick and after being together with him for 10 years, some hospital person will keep us apart because we don't have that magical "certificate" that married couples take almost for granted.
So I wasn't paying that close attention, and saw the headline for this story and thought that it was a cookbook for biological weapons.
No, but if one half of a same sex couple ends up in a hospital, the other half of the couple cannot visit their sick partner. That is my dread fear that my partner will become sick and after being together with him for 10 years, some hospital person will keep us apart because we don't have that magical "certificate" that married couples take almost for granted.