# Gay marriage opponents, listen up: I've got a secret to tell you **URL:** \ **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")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 712
**Author:** ![Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heffalump_and_roo/32/7691_2.png) [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heffalump_and_Roo)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2008, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gay-marriage-opponents-listen-up-ive-got-a-secret-to-tell-you/471496/712 "2008-11-26T05:13:45Z")
> [@Rubystreak](#): > > If you’re trying to protect the sanctity of marriage, calling gay marriages “civil unions” ain’t gonna do it. People are still going to say, “Adam and Steve got married last weekend,” not “Adam and Steve got civilly unioned.” The children are still going to see the gays being all married-like, and will probably not make the fine distinction that NO, boys and girls, they are NOT married! They are civilly _unioned_! Your hetero marriages are SAFE from the taint of gayness and deviant sexuality! Then why don’t they do it now? In California, they can file a certificate of domestic partnership, have a ceremony (or not) and tell everyone they’re married. Why don’t they do this? If all it is, is: > [@Rubystreak](#): > > a technicality that no one would realize or feel, except the gay people who would have to get a different license, and worry that on the next ballot, their rights would be taken away again. So what’s the point? Really! Indeed. That’s my question, what’s the point? Really. While I realize that **Miller** is not the poster boy for gay people, here’s his answer: > [@My First Pit- Magellian01.. you are a cancer upon the human condition](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-first-pit-magellian01-you-are-a-cancer-upon-the-human-condition/455014/35): > > The thing is, as an atheist, I _do_ give a shit about marriage, and would like to get married someday. Not civil unioned - married. Yeah, it’s just a word, but it’s a word that means a lot to me. I’m kind of sentimental like that. If he can get domestic partnership-ed and then tell everyone he’s married and no one would realize or feel the difference including him, why doesn’t that happen now? --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gay-marriage-opponents-listen-up-ive-got-a-secret-to-tell-you/471496)._