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Originally Posted by brianwspencer
I totally understand the logic in what you're saying here -- but I just don't think the semantics should matter. I don't think that calling the same thing two different words should matter. I think that is a compromise that is fair to all parties.
What are we fighting for in the first place? We're fighting because the government stepped into a religious institution and gave those who enter into a religious "contract" certain benefits and rights. So if the government gives homosexual couples those very same benefits and rights, then what more is there? Parity is achieved. That really should end the story right there.
Let the religious right think that they are superior by forcing homosexuals to get those rights under a different name, let them do whatever they want. Homosexuals will be equal in the eyes of the law, and that should be all that matters.
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The problem is that there are two things that you can't legislate...morality and folks opinions. When the sweeping Civil Rights legislation was passed by the federal government in the 60's, it gave us in the movement leverage but didn't give black folks equality! Women are supposedly "equal under the law" but "glass ceilings" abound...the old prejudices, the old mis-information, the old mindsets take time (generations) to overcome BUT they will always exist if reinforced by societal constructs that illuminate "differences"...that's why the words are important!