re: #209 Petero1818

Perhaps you have missed my broader point. Everyone is free to say they are married, because it has no significance other than a personal one, or within one’s congregation. Trust me, I would still say I am married and this is my wife. But when filling out forms, when answering census, and applying for a licence from the State, I would check a box that says ” live within a Civil Union”. Do I think everyone is going to change the way they speak? No. But that is wholly irrelevant to the law.

But why change it to “live within a Civil Union”? Why not leave the check-box saying “marriage”? Is it to appease someone who doesn’t want gays to be able to call themselves “married”?

From your #194:

the most logical way to deal with it is to say that you are free to define marriage any way you choose. The state should not care.

If the state should not care, why should they change it from ‘marriage’ to ‘civil union’?