[Betaille]

"civil union term for "official" governement use (taxation and the such)."
BIG PROBLEM. If you give any two people who want to form a "civil union" the benefits of marriage tax brackets, you will basically be eliminating the protection that our tax code gives to married couples. There is nothing in the language of "civil union" to discourage 2 straight roomates from forming one for tax reasons. that's the question the gay marriage/civil union crowd can't seem toanswer.

[goldstategop]

There is a distinction between marriage and lesser forms of social partnerships. It is precisely the sacred quality of this distinction the Left seeks to abolish. That is why their goal is not so much to get at the opposite sex character of traditional marriage as it is in the fact that it presupposes a recognition absolute equality in the life of a civilized society is impossible. Ipse dixit, as Ann Coulter would say.

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