What is the difference between a domestic partnership and a marriage?

Im doing a paper on prop 8 and i wanted to know whether the domestic partners get the same rights as married couples.. and if not, what are married couples allowed that domestic partners aren't?What is the difference between a domestic partnership and a marriage?
While civil unions grant same-sex couples the same protections as married couples under state law, they deny same-sex couples the 1,049 protections granted to married couples under federal law. These include Social Security survivor benefits, the ability the sponsor a partner for immigration and the ability to take federal leave (and state leave in all states, excluding California) to care for a sick partner.





Furthermore, civil unions aren鈥檛 portable, meaning that states can refuse to recognize a civil union from another state. Unfortunately, civil unions are only performed in Vermont and, to date, no other state has recognized a civil union performed there. Married couples have the privilege of having their union recognized in all 50 states.What is the difference between a domestic partnership and a marriage?
Bragging rights . . . that's the ONLY difference.





The ';legal'; protections are the same . . . but a civil union won't give you bragging rights to say, ';I'm MARRIED.';





Dan in Miami
i'm pretty sure they get the same rights in a domestic partnership as if it were a marriage. they just don't have the right to call it a ';marriage';.
nothing just that homos complain too much that they want it to be called marriage its that dumb equal rights crap