Civil unions are not marriage, by definition. They're civil unions.
So we're agreed - - - Bush won't support an amendment banning civil unions. Dean likes civil unions. Bush has no problems with civil unions. Sinkspur seconds Bush (as Sinkspur always does).
It's all just a disgusting play on words and people are deceiving themselves. Do you really think the homosexuals give a rats tail whether the Churches in America bless their filthy unions or not? All they really want is for the U.S. government to approve their co-habitation, approve their lifestyle, and to support that lifestyle with our tax dollars.
Banning homosexual pervert 'marriages' and compromising with them by blessing their 'civil unions' with new rights and special privileges is nothing more or less than a 100%, complete and total victory for sexual perversion.