Thats one of the things I have been pointing out lately, the average American is NOT agaist gays being able to enter into a "civil" union, what disturbs them and angers them is this insistance of usurping the term marriage. Had there been a consolidated Gay stance that they just wanted equal rights, things would have turned out differently...but that wasn't good enough, the demand was made to take the term MARRIAGE and change its generally accepted meaning. Marriage is a rather important part of many christian religions....you get bad results when trying to strip people of what they consider parts of their religion.
Im not defending it, Im just pointing it out.
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