Do cohabiting couples need more legal rights? Apparently, a recent ruling in Brazil is once more bringing the political theater of meaning of marriage to the front and conservatives in the South American nation are up in arms. BBC News reports that a notary in Sao Paulo has recognized a civil union between 3 individuals two women and one male. According to Public Notary Claudia do Nascimento Domingues, the trio has lived together long enough to warrant family rights, and Brazilian regulation has nothing that forbids such an arrangement.