Gay Marriage
For those of you who are still trying to figure it out, let me break it down for you.

1. Gay people do not want or need the church to sanction their relationships.
2. As far as the government is concerned, every "marriage" is really a civil union, yet the word marriage traditionally means the union is between a man and a woman.
3. Gay people want the government, not the church, to recognize their relationships in the same manner that the government recognizes unions between men and woman.
4. The constitution forbids the government from descriminating against an entire class of people based on religious reasoning.
5. Since the word "marriage" is the word we use, gay people want to be able to be married. If the words "civil unions" applied to both straight and gay people, then we would be happy, but they do not.

Any questions?