As it should be.
As for obtaining legal recognition for shared obligations and responsibilities as well as co-dependent responsibilities and obligations, the civil partnership laws achieved all of that.
So why the “gay marriage” shtick??
To get the law to try to force social acceptance.
To do that what they needed was already in place - the “hate crime” laws that were already morphing into thoght crime laws, and the use of them against someone expressing oppoisition to “gay marriage” as a “hate” crime, if not always by the law, at least by the mandated social acceptance.
What "civil partnership laws?" Most states didn't pass those either. In fact, Texas' Marriage Amendment went so far as to forbid even any "marriage lite" arrangements as recognized by the government.