Now I understand why you kept arguing the way you did. You thought that CA gays didn’t gain anything yesterday except a word. If that were true, I’d agree with you. To me the word “marriage” isn’t important (except as it applies to getting benefits – see below article). As I’ve said all along, I’d be fine with a civil union (or whatever you want to call it) as long as the benefits were exactly the same as marriage. But they’re not. And CA gays did gain more than a word.
There’s a lesbian who I work with who can’t get her partner on her health insurance. They’ve been together for over a decade, and she should be able to have her partner on her health insurance just as much as I should be able to have my wife on mine. But under her “domestic partnership,” she can’t. When they’re married, she’ll be able to have her partner on her health insurance.
