Originally Posted by kane

I'll leave you with this one thought.

When you have a group of people anything you do to label any segment of that group as different from the others can open that segment it up to discrimination of some sort. It may never happen, but it might. We saw it for years with civil unions. Civil unions were 100% legal in many places, but if you happened to work for the government they didn't recognize it and therefore your legal partner could not have access to any benefits you had from that job. The same could happen if you force gay couples to refer to themselves as having something other than a marriage.