re: #562 cliffster

My point exactly. If those rights and benefits are extended, but we still do not have the State willing to put the word Marriage on it, does it make a difference?

It doesn’t to me!

The problem is the word “marriage” is a legal term, not just a religious term. Religions may claim ownership over it, but they don’t get to control how it is employed as a legal distinction. And that’s one of the many prybars the religious right uses against gay people, the word “marriage”, and how they blur the lines between individual religious distinctions about marriage (which is their right to determine) and legal distinctions of marriage. (which is not)