Civil Unions

AMERICAblog:

Folks have been saying this for a while. Still, rather than just asking for marriage from the beginning, I still think it's much smarter to push for civil unions, then work your way to marriage as society increasingly becomes accustomed to those civil unions (no locusts) and thus is increasingly willing to give gave couples more. It's what the religious right does all the time. They don't actually try to repeal Roe v. Wade, they slowly whittle away at it until Roe is just a shell of its former self. They gradually and incrementally approach their goal in a way that the public shrugs off and accepts because each small step doesn't seem that big a deal.

Blue Jersey blog did some great Mac vs. PC ads about this issue months ago. Check them out.

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These are some witty ads that point out the ridiculous inequity of unions versuses marriage. I think it would just be better to downgrade marriage to unions and have the operate the same. Get the license, whoever you are, then if you want to marry find a priest and preacher. Then the union papers act as support in legal questions for all relations.