re: #182 Aceofwhat?

what’s the difference between a marriage and a civil union guaranteeing all of those things?

Nothing. If the ‘civil union’ guarantees every last one of those things, then it is marriage, and should be called marriage, because that’s what a synonym means; you can call it either word.

If this is just a semantic attempt to separate the terms: the reason that Loving vs. Virginia is relevant is that it found that no separate institutions can ever remain equal.