Marriage and Legal Union with equal benefits and rights are not the same thing
I don't know how adoptions and family unit will be effected by the SCOTUS ruling last week.
To what extent ''equity under law'' with regard to parenting rights has not been fully defined
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/15/yo...ling.html?_r=0
Child and Parent rights and responsibilities belong to the state government and not the federal government so a lot of issues will be back in the federal courts.
The majority of Americans both Republican and Democrat believe in a commonly held "religious sanctity of marriage'' which is total bullshit but is sounds good -- elections are next year -- what do you expect