Just Say No to Civil Unions -- Hard Evidentiary Version

[Shana A]

Just Say No to Civil Unions -- Hard Evidentiary Version
Filed by: Marla R. Stevens
January 24, 2009 4:00 PM

http://www.bilerico.com/2009/01/just_say_no_to_civil_unions_--_hard_evid.php

NOTE: I posted the bulk of this as a comment but Bil suggested it would make a better post so here goes:

jersey.jpgOften I hear LGBT people, usually well-meaning and wanting to avoid the conflict that the word "marriage" brings, urge us to drop the fight for the civil union standard that is civil marriage in favor of some other form of civil union, claiming that we can get all the same rights, responsibilities, and benefits of civil marriage but just call it something else so as not to stir up the hets who think they have exclusive rights to that law, confused and all-hell-fired-and-damnationed-up as they get by the fact that both the civil union of civil marriage and the religious union of religious marriage both use the word marriage and the poor het dears just can't seem to get unfreaked out enough to get it that they're not the same thing even if we afford them the convenience of doing the ceremonies for them both simultaneously if that's what they want and somehow us li'l queer children can't possibly get the point across and have time to do whatever queer stuff we'd rather be doing so we'd just better give up practically just as we're getting good and started and give those scary, angry hets the real thing while we settle for sloppy seconds -- again -- 'cause, well, you know...or some such tommyrot.

[Sheila]

I'm not a lawyer by any means of the word but I do have some common sense. If more that 75% of the states in the United States have Civil Unions for same sex couples wouldn't the federal government have to be including the law for the whole union. If you are married in one state now, it is like you are married in all states and all over the world. So, if we got Civil Unions in over 75% of the states, wouldn't it have to go to the federal laws for the same perks that marriage brings. I do believe that in the states that do have civil unions they do have the same perks in the state that marriage has. They just don't have the federal laws. Then I could be wrong about this, too.