[inquest]

That's like saying you can keep the title to your house but you must give up the house.

The difference appears to be that by putting them into the category of "civil unions", it immunizes them against applications of the full-faith&credit clause of the U.S. Constitution so they can't be imposed on other states.

[King Black Robe]

No. The FFC doesn't specify marriage, it just mentions contracts. That's why congress rushed in with the DOMA after Vermont courts decreed civil unions onto their state. It doesn't make a dimes worth of difference, other than it offers cover if and when a FMA passes. MA will still have their marriage and it will be written into the constitution instead of just represented by legislation that is much easier to repeal. I don't know if the FMA would nulify existing court-ordered shotgun queer weddings or not, but it wouldn't nulify this since this is not what the court ordered. This is a stupid move. They should just impeach the justices.