I've become interested along with
others in the idea of A
Federal Civil Union Law. It's an interesting proposal & I believe it's time has come.
If it was up to me, gay people could get married if they wanted, but personally, "Marriage" has sanctimonious religious & social connotations that give me the willies. I think a lot of other people, gay & straight, feel the same way. The idea of a
Federal Civil Unions Law is appealing to people like us. It would be a way to cut out the crap, so to speak, & weaken the social and cultural weight that "marriage" & all it's baggage bears.
What really sparked my interest in this subject was the the passing of
Proposition 8 in California & the
recent hullabaloo over Presidential elect Barack Obama choosing Pastor Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at the inauguration in January. Although Obama has never endorsed gay marriage, he claims to support civil unions, & apparently Rick Warren is not apposed to civil unions or rights for the gay community*, but he does not want gay people to have full marriage rights. He said in the conclusion of
this interview that he didn't believe in the redefinition of marriage.
So BFD! Who needs his stupid religious take on it anyway?
I say quit haggling over a word, let them have "marriage" with it's religious overtones & us secular people can push for the 1,200+ rights (that marriage entitles couples to) that would come with a
Federal Civil Union Law.
There is more then one way to skin a cat.
*
Preachers are slipperier in their answers then Politicians.
