By Andy Kropa, AP - from the USA Today
“I don’t want to be married. I’m very happy with a civil partnership. If gay people want to get married, or get together, they should have a civil partnership,” John says. “The word ‘marriage,’ I think, puts a lot of people off.
“You get the same equal rights that we do when we have a civil partnership. Heterosexual people get married. We can have civil partnerships.”
The whole point in my blog post is that marriage is a religious institution whereas civil unions are a governmental one. So let the two of them be separate but require all heterosexual couples and homosexual couples to have to have a civil union, and let the churches do marriages. I believe that it is the only fair way to handle this situation in a country that has freedoms.
