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Old 02-17-2008, 06:23 PM   #20 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by OnTheLeft View Post
Anything less than equality doesn't cut it.

Civil unions only give part of the state benefits and none of the federal benefits that come with the marriage contract.

Here's an easy-to-read chart that makes the inequality easy to see:

http://www.glad.org/rights/Marriage_v_CU_chart.pdf
If I may, OTL...

Anything less than equality... isn't equality.
And no amount of semantic games will turn the current situation into equality.

Thanks for the reference link, too, OTL. It's the shortest and easiest to understand one of those charts I have seen. Bookmarked that one for future use.