If you can't marry someone legally, then you don't get the legal benefits that marriage has to offer. While the marriage may have emotional meaning, it doesn't carry the same meaning that a legal marriage does.
By law, rmcannot marry who she wishes. The 'by law' part is important.
Re: "For today, at least, we win. May it be so every day until the battle is over"
Date: 2010-08-05 12:18 am (UTC)By law,