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Something can be legal and still be discrimination. Jim Crow was discrimination even when it was legal.
Do you truly believe that the civil unions are meant to be just "different," not any "less"? All I can say is that it's very unusual for millions of people to get worked up about preserving a legal distinction between two things that they view equally. Usually they're trying to preserve some kind of privilege for themselves. I can't know what's in the heart of a particular individual, but there are millions of straight people out there who'd allow gays to have civil unions, but not marriages, because they flat-out think that their straight unions are more special and better than gay unions. They don't really think that gay love is equal to straight love or that the commitment of those couples really matters as much as straight couples' commitment.
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