re: #415 OhNoZombies!

Screw them.
They want to deny an entire segment of the population happiness and security for their loved ones, and they wield the word “marriage” as a bludgeon.
Take the power out of the word, and make it a legal issue. If a church wants to call a civil union a marriage, whether it’s same or opposite sex, let them, but don’t allow them the power to deny basic human rights.

I don’t understand what you are driving at. The churches are irrelevant. The state presently defines a legal status of “married”, and mostly limits this to man-women couples.

Replacing “marriage” with “civil union” in state laws is a no-op, unless substantive rights are changed. If the rights are changed to equality, the name change is pointless, in my opinion, because the opposition would not be reduced by the name change.

I used to believe some form of civil unions was the answer. Now I support full marriage equality (i.e., including the word itself).