The only difference between interracial marriages and other marriages is skin color. If you find a corpse, you will be able to determine immediately whether it was white or black. You will not know whether it was gay or straight.
Unless and until that changes, there is no comparison between homosexual "civil rights" and true civil rights. Interracial marriage is a smokescreen.
That said, once interracial marriage was addressed, nobody tried to pretend it wasn't marriage. Nobody played word games.
Why is the homosexual situation different?
Shalom.
Nobody played word games. Why is the homosexual situation different?
Because word games is all they've got! It's the only way that they can make their argument seem reasonable! The Liberals love to use semantics (pro-choice, free education, progressive). The idea of "civil unions" is from the left. The problem that you're having is this: You're trying to take an idea from the left and apply reason to it!
Even if someone thinks that a civil union and a marriage are two different things (I do not) they're left to admit that the Government's promotion of traditional marriage is then invalid. Isn't it?