Poll Shows Majority Favors Civil Unions
October 12, 2009 by Gay Agenda News Team
A new report based on a recent national US survey by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life and the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press has found that a clear majority of Americans favour allowing gay and lesbian couples to enter into legal agreements with each other that would give them many of the same rights as married couples, a status commonly known as civil unions.
This finding marks a slight increase in support for civil unions and appears to continue a significant long-term trend since the question was first asked in Pew Research Center surveys in 2003, when support for civil unions stood at 45 per cent.
In Canada, the inverse is the legal situation: marriage is a federally controlled issue, while provinces are free to “control” civil unions.
What happened here is that in Québec, the most liberal (that would be “socialist” to all you poor frightened Americans) province, decided to install civil unions for same sex couples, as well as augment the number of “protected” rights of couples in civil unions.
This happened a LONG time ago.
Eventually, the Federal level followed and made marriage available to all.
There was less debate here over “separate but not equal” because a vast number of heterosexual couples chose civil unions over marriage as well.
I veiw civil unions as another form of “separate but equal”. It’s one thing for heterosexual couples to choose civil unions, but they have that CHOICE and it’s not available to gay couples.
I’d like to take this article as something positive, which I think it is; but people just don’t get it- seperate but equal didn’t work before and it won’t work now because it doesn’t work PERIOD.