Reply #99: Marriage, yep, and I apologize for my vagueness

[Cal Carpenter]

as I said in the post my eyes were barely open, and I was thinking more in terms of heteros who consider their spouse a 'life partner' or something - I'm coming across more and more of that these days (and according to other posts on this thread the rule applies to that sort of situation as well). I certainly didn't mean to imply that gay couples shouldn't be able to legally marry exactly like hetero couples can.

I understand what you are saying. I don't believe in 'separate but equal' on this or any other issue. Rights are rights, period.

And that was my main point, it concerns me that this is a special 'rule' being issued rather than being handled on the level of basic equal rights.