This proposal to expand health care benebits beyond marriage is a clear violation of the Constitution of Virginia.  Such an expansion of benefits, despite claims by proponents, has to increase the cost of health insurance for the state and consequently, the taxpayer.  We, the voters of Virginia. voted in the Marriage Amendment in 2006.  Do you not care for the citizens of your state?  What kind of governor are you anyway?  Christians believe in marriage.  Marriage falls in the same category as the "If a man doesn't work, he doesn't eat".  "If people don't honor marriage between a man and a woman, they don't share in the benefits that this kind of union shares.  Besides, children benefit from having a male for the daddy and a female for the mother and that should only be true if the man and woman are married to each other.  God ordained marriage between a man and a woman.  He created male and female for each other.  It takes a male and a female to produce offspring.