# Is The Gay Marriage Debate Over?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-gay-marriage-debate-over/687472>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [May 2, 2014, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-gay-marriage-debate-over/687472 "2014-05-02T00:00:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Showing post:** 810

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![TimeWinder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bcef8e/32.png) [@TimeWinder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TimeWinder)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2014, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-gay-marriage-debate-over/687472/810 "2014-05-12T17:59:13Z")

</div>

> [@magellan01](#):
>
> C) Proposal: Let’s have one set of legal benefits and privileges that are equally and identical accessed by the two groups in A. Namely, SS couples brought together in a Civil Union and OS couples brought together in a Marriage.

Excellent. And since these are, in your own words, _exactly_ equal, you won’t mind switching the names. Same Sex couples get to have a “marriage”, Opposite Sex couples couples get to have a “civil union.” They’re exactly the same, so nobody should mind this, right?

---

_[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-gay-marriage-debate-over/687472)._