That's just dumb. You are hung up on a word while missing a key American value, Equality. What matters more, the word or the value?
e·qual·i·ty
the state of being equal, esp. in status, rights, and opportunities
It is not now and NEVER has been about equality, it is now and ALWAYS has been about shoving their beliefs down the throats of those who disagree with them.
Thinking people understand that if they give you the "rights" accorded to married people and YOU give them an inch by calling it a "Civil Union" everybody wins.
You people are just too stupid to get it.
Ignorant nonsense.
It is about equal protection of the law, it is about the consistent application of equal protection jurisprudence, and it is about the 14th AmendmentÂ’s requirement that all persons be allowed access to the laws of every state.
To seek to contrive some legal fiction such as ‘civil unions,’ and relegate same-sex couples to that ‘law,’ violates the due process and equal protection rights of same-sex couples, where whether the legal fiction known as ‘civil unions’ affords same-sex couples the same benefits and privileges of marriage afforded opposite-sex couples or not.
Moreover, the issue has nothing to do with “shoving their beliefs down the throats of those who disagree with them,” as it is not same-sex couples who disagree with those who wish to deny gay Americans their civil liberties, it is the Constitution and its case law.