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Originally Posted by Sooz Pascale  I'm wrong a lot too, Trout. At least we admit it. 
I would be MORE in favor of civil unions IF they offered all of the benefits that marriage does.
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I did some research on civil unions in the UK, and as far as I could discover there's only one way in which they differ from actual marriages, and that's just that they cannot be sanctioned in a place of worship, it has to be a civil office. I think that was a concession to give churches the right to refuse to do them (although there's nothing to stop a gay couple having a religious marriage ceremony in a church, and a seperate civil ceremony at a different time, provided they can find a church that's willing).
Fiscally and socially, as far as I can tell, everything else is the same.