In my job I'm pretty heavily involved in the political movement for gay rights. I've always been a proponent of not making compromises--We'll take gay marriage because Civil Unions aren't enough.
But recently I've had an experience where a gay friend of mine could not see her partner in the hospital for weeks and had no way of knowing what was going on, or even if she was alive or dead. And I began to wonder whether it's really worth it to fight for Gay Marriage right now. Civil Unions will give us all the important things--visitation rights, legal partnerships, adoption (hopefully by extension, although not necessarily). There's really not much practical difference between Civil Unions and Marriage. Plus, Americans are MUCH more open to legal Civil Unions (73 percent) than GM (39 percent).
The problem that I see is that compromise could lead to us getting nothing. We lose a bargaining chip. What do you think?
2006-07-02
18:20:35
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Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender