That’s because our Marriage Equality Act was small c conservative. We didn’t disrupt existing kinship or family-to-family weddings. Before 2007, in Taiwan, when you have a wedding ceremony where both families were invited, it’s a legal ceremony and maybe you register later. But the marriage was effective at the day of ceremony. It’s sometimes likened to the day the baby is born it’s born. The birth certificate comes later.

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