re: #190 Obdicut

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.

they’re not exactly synonymous. in my relationship, it is possible for my children to live with their biological mother and father. while that situation does not always occur in heterosexual marriages, the potential exists, or used to (my elders get married too). no such potential exists in a homosexual coupling. that does not make them bad…just different. why is different bad? i thought different was good…i’m confused…

(just being light there at the end)