Simple poll: Are you in favor of legalizing same-sex marriage?

[Curmudgeoness]

5. What I gather from your post

is that you want to separate the church rite from the legal contract. Interesting tack. This takes the argument about what "marriage" is away from the churches and religious people who are so upset about same sex "marriage".

A gay couple that I know have two different attitudes about the controversy. One says that he doesn't care if they call it a marriage or a domestic partnership, as long as he has all the same rights as a married couple. The other says that he is opposed to separating the terminology because he wants to be treated as equal to any other couple, and that includes calling the commitment by the same name. I see both sides. If marriage was only a rite performed in the church, and all couples have a domestic partnership unless they are religious and want the rite, that takes care of the problem.