11.   It should come as no surprise that with Dole headed West, the Republican Congress is pushing legislation that would prohibit legal recognition of same-sex couples.

12.   It would create a watered-down version of common law marriage, extending inheritance rights and social security to couples who currently lack legal recognition in Mexico.

13.   Legal recognition for so-called alternative families has been hard fought.

14.   Legal recognition is not needed to worship freely.

15.   Legal recognition of gay and lesbian marriages suggests an equivalence between those relationships and their heterosexual counterparts.

16.   McCain opposes legal recognition of marriages between gays or lesbians.

17.   No state currently gives legal recognition to same-sex or unmarried partnerships.

18.   Nonetheless, the drive has come closer than at any other maquiladora plant to stripping a PRI-backed union of legal recognition.

19.   On what principled ground can Andrew Sullivan exclude others who most desperately want what he wants, legal recognition and social acceptance?

20.   Participants were lending support to a proposal that would for the first time grant legal recognition to gay unions, though only within the federal capital.