Interesting Facebook conversation...

[OrphanPip]

Separate but equal status is not acceptable. The word marriage has religious and cultural importance for gay people too. There are churches who will perform gay marriages. If marriage is a religious institution, why should the state be determining how people define their unions in religious terms? Either the state must extradite itself from ratifying religious unions, such that every union is a civil one, or they must give equal access to religious unions to all consenting adults.