foolsguinea:
Proposition 8, in California of all places, has shown that gay marriage under that name can fail pretty much anywhere in this country. I really seriously suggest that gay rights advocates work on getting domestic partnership laws passed in every state in the country. I don’t think my home state or the rest of the Bible Belt will accept or allow gay marriage under that name for the next twenty years. That’s a minimum, not a maximum.
They might not accept domestic partnership either. I understand why fighting for gay marriage instead seems better; it doesn’t seem temporary & second-class & removable. But if marriage is defined as “a man & a woman,” your marriage you refused to call a domestic partnership or the like may be defined out of existence.
Meh. Fighting for marriage equality is what brought domestic partnerships to pass. DP’s were offered as a compromise. If people had fought for DPs, we’d be getting something even worse.
And we do have DPs in California.