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...ideologically-split State Legislature resumes debate today over a proposed Constitutional amendment that would ban gay marriage but provide for civil unions??a debate that stalled when three alternative amendments were defeated last month...
After an audience member asked why her father supported full civil unions??but not marriage—for homosexuals, Kerry replied, “For my dad, it’s an issue of semantics,” adding that the candidate’s Catholic faith prevents him from supporting gay marriage...
...Mitt Romney’s “civil unions?? would establish equality without violating the rights of those who do not support gay marriage. Such unions could be open to both homosexual and heterosexual couples in place of religious marriages. They would in no way demean or lessen the status of homosexual individuals or create “separate but equal” institutions reminiscent of racial segregation. Instead, civil unions uphold the rights of all men and women, regardless of sexuality...
...never far offstage, and already such unfortunately powerful voices as Governor W. Mitt Romney have come out against formalizing the right that the state’s highest legal body has outlined. In place of marriage, Romney has suggested that gays and lesbians be allowed “civil unions??—contracts with all the legal benefits of marriage but without the name. It is as yet unclear whether the SJC’s ruling would allow this hair-splitting restriction to pass into law. What is perfectly clear to any level-headed observer is that...
...while Gephardt said she and her father are both champions of social justice, she said they do disagree on specificities. While she supports gay marriage, he supports civil unions??which accords couples fewer legal rights...