I'm glad to see that cheeseburger's opinion isn't in the majority here.


All the talk about churches not wanting to endorse gay marriages and being offended that someone would use that word or whatever is irrelevant. For one, there are churches that are quite happy to marry gay people. Secondly, it doesn't matter anyway because religious feelings are not a reasonable basis for legislation. (And in the U.S., that concept happens to be enshrined in our constitution. It's kind of ridiculous when anti-gay-marriage people talk about what the country's founders believed, when those founders were the ones who decided to have "no law respecting an establishment of religion".)

Finally, about civil unions and why they aren't good enough. It's pretty simple - if straight people get "marriage", then I want it too. I have no interest in being a second-class citizen, and I'm not going to be happy with any law granting rights to other people and not to me. Equality, people! It's not that hard.