# Gay marriage opponents, listen up: I've got a secret to tell you

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gay-marriage-opponents-listen-up-ive-got-a-secret-to-tell-you/471496
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [November 6, 2008, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gay-marriage-opponents-listen-up-ive-got-a-secret-to-tell-you/471496 "2008-11-06T19:08:06Z")
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### Author: ![BrightNShiny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@BrightNShiny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrightNShiny)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2008, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gay-marriage-opponents-listen-up-ive-got-a-secret-to-tell-you/471496/46 "2008-11-07T00:25:39Z")

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> [@foolsguinea](#):
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> 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.
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> 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.

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