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Why would gay couples not accept civil unions with all the rights that accrue to a married heterosexual couple if the rights include child custody, estate issues, right to decide an incapacited partner's medical treatments, etc.?
I have no issues with gay couples and the depth of their commitment to each other. But I think that marriage in the traditional sense should be exclusive to heterosexual couples.
I don't feel the need to justify my position, and I don't ask anyone to justify their differing stance to me. And I think that my feelings are in the majority of the American mainstream. Something like 70%.
Could that change? It's possible. Marriage is under attack in a sense, so civil unions could be the wave of the future for all folks out there. It's certainly an evolving issue, whether hard liners on either side like it or not.
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