Reply #94: You say it can't work and that CU is the coward's way out, but fighting for the word makes them win. [View All]

[Tigress DEM]

I do not believe for one minute that the forces at work against gay marriage own family values, America, patriotism.

IF I thought you could get all you want AND the word too, I wouldn't even suggest going the CU route.

What I am saying is that this word is historically linked with the sacrament of marriage back to 1300 AD England and the sacrament pre-dates Christ in the Torah, so if you are arguing that the religious community doesn't "own" the word, legally it's a harder battle because it can be argued both ways.

HOWEVER, this is America and those 1,169 legal rights married people enjoy should be available to all Americans who choose to put their family together. Period. I am talking about an amendment to the Constitution that takes Civil Unions out of the hands of the states so no one gets to vote away those rights.

It's a new world where diplomacy is now possible again. So don't think you will lose everything or lose big by getting the rights you deserve in exchange for a word that stands in the way of separation of church and state.