Cowards, hypocrites and puppets

Sen. Clinton believes in "equality" for the LGBT community and opposes legislation that would ban gay marriage, yet she continues to oppose gay marriage.

Former Sen. Edwards believes in "equality" for the LBGT community, but "struggles" with the concept of gay marriage, and therefore opposes it.

Sen. Obama believes in "equality" for the LGBT community, but opposes gay marriage for "religious reasons."

I have said this many, many times, but I'll say it one more: ALL marriage in the U.S. are civil unions. If you go into a church and get a member of the clergy to perform a marriage ceremony for you, and you do not have a government certificate for the marriage--no matter how many thousands of beads have been sewn onto your dress and no matter how many Bibles you carry--you are NOT married.

There is no such thing as civil union v. marriage. But no one will step forward and debunk the myth that there is a difference between them. You are either married--meaning you have a legal civil union--or you are not. If your church is bigoted enough to not want to perform a religious ceremony for a gay couple that has a civil union, that is your church's own moral downfall. But your own civil union is no more legal or important than that couple's is. It is all marriage in the United States.

People who "oppose gay marriage," therefore, should oppose civil unions for gay couples, because they are the same thing.