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[desh]

Can anyone offer a compelling argument as to why same-sex marriage should be legal everywhere in the US? Specifically, why that would be superior, in the long run, to "marriage" being removed as a legal term for everyone, and replaced by civil unions for any two un-unioned consenting adults (of whatever sex/gender)? Because I definitely prefer the latter, but I'm not sure if there are good reasons I haven't thought of as to why same-sex marriage is actually better.

(Leaving aside the question of multiple partners for now, since it raises a different set of issues...)

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The simplest argument would be there would be less to change. If you remove marriage from law then you have to make civil union mean the same thing--a process that sounds simple but probably is ridiculously difficult. We could simply add an addendum to existing marriage laws stating that the term "civil union" is to be used in all same sex legal procedures that would be called "marriage" between a man and woman.

Of course, that would probably be more annoying than any of us could imagine as well... is there no easy answer?!