I am fully supportive of same-sex unions. and that the government has no business in our bedrooms. I think the word "marriage" smacks too much of religion, and I don't really like the term too much, even for my own partnership. I think there should be equal benefits--if one of the partners in a gay relationship dies, the survivor has no legal right to their stuff. Big problem.
Are heterosexual unions so tenuous that the creation of gay "marriage" will weaken the centuries-old practice of marriage between a man and woman?