[quote]That would eliminate any "Separate but Equal" bullshit out of the water. [/quote]No it doesn't. Do you know WHY separate but equal was declared unconstitutional? I didn't until I started to study law. It is because separate is INHERENTLY unequal- unconstitutional. It isn't a matter of keeping the rights the same. In regards to blacks vs. whites, if colored bathrooms were just as pristine as white bathrooms, it STILL would be unconstitutional. This is because the Supreme Court said the reason separate but equal is unconstitutional is because by separating the two things, you are inherently saying they are different and one thing is 'worse' than the other so it has to be kept separate. The only reason colored people had to be separate was because they were 'less' than white people. This caused a psychological difference between the two and that psychological effect on the minds of colored people meant they could not be equal after all. In other news... [quote]Give Civil Unions the same benefits as Marriage, and let Heterosexual couples be allowed to have Civil Unions.[/quote]In the Wisconsin State Constitution at least, it is illegal to have Civil Unions have the same rights as Marriage. The term used is anything 'substantially similar' to marriage in a domestic partnership is unconstitutional because in the state constitution marriage is strictly between a man and woman- that is specified directly in the law. Therefore gay rights activists in the state have to defend domestic partnerships between two tracts: Both that the rights are different enough that domestic partnership should be allowed, and that the process into which you ENTER a domestic partnership is different enough to allow it to exist. If either of those two things were the same, domestic partnership could be completely eliminated in the state. So your act would actually STOP 'gay marriage,' not promote it. [quote]let individual churches choose whether or not to accept the marriages.[/quote]And just to add, to enter a domestic partnership all you have to do, again at least in Wisconsin though I imagine it extends elsewhere, is to live with the other person for 30 days, one of the parties must live in the county you'll be married in for the few days, and sign a piece of paper. No church or marriage needed.