re: #258 Decatur Deb

One of our lizards has posted summaries of how deeply marriage, not civil union, is woven into US/State law. She listed a hundred or two instances. Fact is, simple economic justice cannot be served by the compromise term.

If civil unions were essentially civil marriages, it would work, but as I said, they aren’t. As an atheist the religious aspects of marriage aren’t relevant to me, but I hadn’t given a lot of thought to the semantics of it all. I think the bottom line is that there isn’t any point in making up new terms-if you care, just draw a line between a civil marriage and a religious one. It shouldn’t matter to anyone but the couple involved which kind they select.