[MEGoody]

The gays don't need these kinds of laws. They already have the legal avenues to accomplish this stuff, e.g. wills, powers of attorney.

[RonF]

I don't favor creating "gay marriage". But, for accuracy's sake, what a heterosexual couple can accomplish in one act (getting married), a homosexual couple would need to spend a lot of money on legal fees and filings and a lot of time to match, and there are still a lot of grey areas that aren't easy to cover. For many homosexual couples, this is the big attraction to "gay marriage". Many of these "same-sex union" acts are an attempt to create such a vehicle.

Now, whether that's desirable is another issue. But it's not as simple as one might think.