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Originally posted by AnchorAlum
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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He/She can't answer that for you. Search his/her name out to see some of his/her other responses.
Evidently he thinks that marriage is only about free benefits except can't explain why people choose to divorce and give up said benefits and even incur financial damage. Then he thought that a civil union wouldn't work even though those benefits are granted, because it's a case of separate but not equal. Logic does not flow.
In this other thread he also talked with such annoying speech (often) and ill grammar (once) that it bothered me - although not as much as when he lied and pretended he was an investment banker too...just like me!
-Rudey
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