Personally, I am in favor of "gay marriage". It is a Libertarian issue for me and I do not condone government discrimination against any group. It seems to me that most people don't have a problem with gays getting the same rights that married people enjoy- they object to the use of the word "marriage". Marriage is a concept that has long been "one man and one woman" (except in a few polygamist societies). Maybe the path of least resistance for gays is to take the "civil union" route, whereby states can grant gay couples the EXACT same rights as married couples, they simply call it something else. Seems like a minor compromise that would accomplish the objective...
So how are you going to prevent people from tossing the word marriage around? Pass a law?
That worked so well when people tried to prevent the word gay from meaning homosexual.
I doubt people will stand around at cocktail parties and talk about how their friends got "civil unionized".
That's my point. The legal definition would be "civil union" but colloquially everyone would refer to it as "marriage". Win/Win
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