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There’s an interesting little graphic on secularright.com which shows support for Same Sex Marriage by region (not simply Civil Unions):
Don’t be surprised if in the next couple of years you have SSM permitted across the entire
Northern Tier of the US. Also, any chance of getting a Anti Gay Marriage Constitutional amendment is zero at this point. There just aren’t enough states that would support ratifying an amendment.
A question for the all the lawyers in the house: so is there a major difference between “Marriage” (with the big M) and a Civil Union? I mean legally and what not. I might be wrong, but aren’t they legally the same thing?
There seems to be the big tie-up about allowing SSM, but it strikes me as being mostly about stance and posturing than about real legalities. WE have named what WE have and don’t want YOU to have it VERSUS WE see what YOU have and want the exact same thing (sometimes because it sticks it to you that WE have it).
Maybe the proper course of action is to eliminate Marriage altogether and call everything by its sanitized, non-offensive, legalize name of Civil Union. Marriage strikes my like a mostly religious thing anyways, and therefore should not be recognized by the Government as something more than just a Civil Union.
Am I wrong here?