Reply #5: Civil unions are state-sanctioned. FEDERAL BENEFITS do not accrue to them.

[MADem]

You want to bring your foreign fiance over to the USA on a fiance visa?
Your fiance, and you, had BETTER BE heterosexual!!

You want your spouse to collect social security benefits based on YOUR, HIGHER wages?
You'd better be HETEROSEXUAL!

You work for the federal government, or serve in the military, and you want your spouse to get your survivor benefit annuity?
You'd BETTER be heterosexual!!!

You work for the feds, and you want your spouse to qualify for your medical benefits?
You'd BETTER be heterosexual!

That's the tip of the iceberg. There's over a thousand federal benefits that accrue to heterosexual unions. Homosexual unions, even from places like Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Vermont, don't get any Federal love.

Can you see why gays are a bit annoyed? I sure can.