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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Thank you.
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When will the props be confirmed??
It seems like Prop 8 is doing good for me so far! 
Re: When will the props be confirmed??
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/politics/cal/la-2008election-california-results,0,1293859.htmlstory
There is a tab to look up propositions. I think they are at 95% confirmed.
From an email that I got, they're going over absentee ballots and provisional ballots. ?It might be announced sometime today - people are monitoring the results.
I fail to see how exactly this impacts you (the couple that I saw get married on Saturday, sure. ?But you? ?Not getting it...), but I suppose congratulations on stripping away the rights and dignity of hundreds of thousands of Californians are in order. ?
I struggled with 8, but my understanding is that existing domestic partnership laws offer the same rights and benefits as marriage, without the "marriage" title, so I voted yes, too. Not having the semantics on your side shouldn't be interpreted as having less of a committed, recognized partnership.
Plus, it's not any less valid to have a deeply held religious conviction otherwise.
It's not semantics. ?Domestic partnership doesn't qualify someone for more than 1,000 federal rights that marriage does - things like being able to bring an international spouse to America, tax benefits, pensions, etc.
It's not. ?
From the NCLR:
"Marriage automatically confers over 1,100 federal rights and benefits, along with hundreds of additional state rights and benefits. Many of these rights are intended to help families in times of crisis, such as an automatic right to visit a spouse in a hospital or to make medical decisions for an incapacitated spouse. While some rights can be obtained, at least partially, through private agreements or other legal procedures (which require legal guidance and can be prohibitively expensive), most of the protections provided through marriage simply cannot be replicated in any other way. Federal benefits unavailable to unmarried couples include (but are not limited to) protections under the Family Medical Leave Act; family and death benefits through social security and pension plans (most of which provide benefits only to legal spouses); the ability to have foreign spouses immigrate to the U.S.; worker's compensation surviving spouse protections; and numerous tax benefits, including tax breaks for couples raising children."
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As history has shown us, separate is inherently unequal. ?I mentioned this on this board weeks ago. ? Amazing - you'd think someone would actually try and find this information out before stripping people's rights away.