It sounds like the attorney you talked to is giving you the straight scoop, and not trying to tell you what you want to hear. Sounds like a keeper! :)

The more I think about this, the more I think that it wouldn't hold up as discriminatory in a court of law. Since there is no legal impediment to you and your partner getting married, they are going to argue that it's just a consequence of your choice not to get married, whereas a same-sex couple cannot get married, and therefore it would only be discriminatory if they could not be covered at all.

"It seemed that all the aunts and grandmotherly types would come up to me, poke me in the ribs and tell me, "your next." They stopped doing that shit after I started doing the same to them at funerals. "

LOL, I wish I had thought of that!