21.   Even progressive countries that have granted gay couples equal rights do so under a parallel system of domestic partnership, not marriage.

22.   Former Gov. Pete Wilson vetoed every domestic partnership bill that reached his desk.

23.   Going with domestic partnership validates the bigotry.

24.   He says he would instead work to expand legal rights for gay couples in domestic partnerships.

25.   He was floating a proposal that would permit people to register domestic partnerships with city government.

26.   Her movie is an amusing vignette in which a technologically jinxed phone call reveals the insecurities of a shaky domestic partnership.

27.   How domestic partnership will be verified has not been decided yet.

28.   Immediately after the ruling, Gov. Howard Dean and others expressed their support for domestic partnership as a compromise.

29.   In many communities and companies, domestic partnerships have provided committed partners with necessary access to health insurance, bereavement leave, family leave and retirement benefits.

30.   In Plattsburgh, Stewart faced an opponent known for positions favored by gays on issues like domestic partnership benefits and same-sex marriage.