Separate but equal is not equal, and that would really be separate-but-not-quite-equal because 'marriage' is baked into a bunch of law and 'gay partnerships' would have to special-case all of those. It's a giant hack, so to speak.
Also, the people really pushing this genuinely want gay people to have less rights than straight people. Some of them want gay people to be locked up (Mike Huckabee is in this group although he doesn't talk about it much) and a very few even want them to be executed. Those people will not accept any compromise.
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Date: 2009-12-22 05:21 pm (UTC)Separate but equal is not equal, and that would really be separate-but-not-quite-equal because 'marriage' is baked into a bunch of law and 'gay partnerships' would have to special-case all of those. It's a giant hack, so to speak.
Also, the people really pushing this genuinely want gay people to have less rights than straight people. Some of them want gay people to be locked up (Mike Huckabee is in this group although he doesn't talk about it much) and a very few even want them to be executed. Those people will not accept any compromise.