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Originally Posted by gomoho
Well if I have a daughter and a step-daughter they are equal, but called something different because the relationship is not the traditionally recognized one. Doesn't make them less equal - just different. This is the part I don't get. If a gay/lesbian marriage could be called a "civil union" they probably would have been granted equal rights in the past. Marriage is a traditional word not only in our county, but world wide meaning between a man and woman. Why does that need to be changed to give them equal rights??? The move to turn something so sacred to the majority of people is what causes the fight - not the idea of partners having equal rights.
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My feeling also. Since opposite-sex-unions and same-sex-unions ARE different...I can't see any reasonable person of any persuasion arguing that point...why do they have to be called the same thing. A civil union (if that is what it is called) could have the exact same rights as a marriage if that's what the powers-that-be deem appropriate. But why be forced to give two different institutions identical rights? That's the one aspect of this issue I'll never understand.