Reply #32: As I see it more liberal leaning politicians are going to use the phrase "civil union"

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to do an end-round. Do I like it? No but on my more optimistic days I think as long as we gets the rights, the gay community can frame the dialog. As I posted in another thread if I were to get hitched, I wouldn't go around saying "I was just civil unioned," I'd say I was married, as I'm sure my friends and family would. Just like people who get hitched at the JP, they don't say "I just got Justice of the Peace'd," they tell everyone they got married.

On other days, my more pessimistic days, I saw I want the word "marriage."