That’s why homosexual ‘marriage’ is important to them. It’s not that they want a property arrangement; civil unions give that. It’s that gay ‘marriage’ opens the door for ‘non-discrimination’ in schools...first graders must learn about husband/husband and wife/wife relations and celebrate them just like real marriage.
That's what happened in MA, immediately after the Supreme Judicial Court ruling. It's interesting to note that the two women who brought the suit, and were the first to 'get married', got a divorce within two years.