apmom wrote:
You will be hard pressed to ever get calling it anything other than what it is. In the way I saw it, by calling it something other than what it is would be insulting and telling gays that they could be allowed this personal partnership but were not good enough or equal enough to be able to get married. And with the mindset of the hypocrites, that is exactly how they would see it. I happen to believe that they are just as good as anyone else and if they want to get a marriage license they should be able to and call it a marriage license. Anything less is insulting, imo.

Either you stand for something completely or you don't and by changing what is to something else to satisfy the hypocrites, indicates that you were willing to settle and I am not willing to settle. It is all or it is nothing. Get done, get it done at one time and move on and stop this dragging things on for years and years to gain an inch. Take the whole damn mile and be done with it.

A few years ago, a friend of mine and his "personal relation" partner were in an accident.   My friend wasn't hurt seriously but his partner went into the ICU because of his injury's.  Needless to say, my friend wasn't able to say goodby to his partner he had for something like 15 years.  He couldn't go into the ICU because he wasn't a family member.   With a marriage license, they would not have been able to refuse him.

  I remember when my oldest sisters husband became ill and put in the ICU, only the immediately family members were allowed in.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

-- Dwight Eisenhower