If it were about legal benefits, people would have been happy with civil unions. They weren't. It's about the stamp of approval of society.
Ideally, folks like Dave Rubin would be treated like the decent people that they are, while mad dogs like Philip would be treated like what they are - instead of like they are now, allowed to expose themselves to women in the locker rooms and showers.
If it were about legal benefits, people would have been happy with civil unions.
Civil unions have never granted all the same legal benefits of marriage, and there was nothing to say that once they did, they would continue to do so.
If it were about legal benefits, people would have been happy with civil unions. They weren't. It's about the stamp of approval of society.
Ideally, folks like Dave Rubin would be treated like the decent people that they are, while mad dogs like Philip would be treated like what they are - instead of like they are now, allowed to expose themselves to women in the locker rooms and showers.
Therein lies the problem. Communism and libertarianism exist in the same poisonous swamp.
Civil unions have never granted all the same legal benefits of marriage, and there was nothing to say that once they did, they would continue to do so.