Gay Marriage

[The Jays]

Ok.

Hypothetical here.

Say Marriage and Civil Unions carry the same rights. Same benefits, same everything.

Then the only matter would be the fact that one defines a heterosexual union, the other a homosexual union.

that is correct. there would be no difference other than what would happen on the honeymoon.

Ok. Here's the opinion.



I have no problem with civil unions having the same benefits as a marriage.

I have no problem with civil unions being recognized in the state of New York.

It would seem that calling a union between two people of opposite genders the same thing as a union between two people of the same gender is problematic, because by doing that, it seems that there, inherently, a problem with being homosexual, rather than heterosexual, which is not true. There is no problem whether a person is homosexual or heterosexual. There is no problem with being different. So why is there a problem with calling one a marriage and one a civil union, if both of them are A-OK, and both of them carry the same benefits?