(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
civil unions are just a way of having marriage without the m word. The next step of the homo-advocates will be to eliminate marriage as an institution or make civil unions and marriage one in the same by judicial fiate and thus subject to FFC spread.
Civil unions are no longer viable as a compromise. they must be opposed as equally as homosexual marriage.
ANYTHING homosexuals want to do via civil unions can be done with a simple cohabitation form.
The final iron of the "love makes a family" homosexual group is that "love" is NEVER EVER been part of marriage and law. The law has NEVER cared about love, the law only viewed all marriage (and divorce) in the context of production of children.