Marriage or CPA?

"Gay marriage" is the talk of the town but it isn't marriage at all is it? It's a civil partnership agreement and that's something else entirely. I have to say I'm in favour of the CPA's because they serve to protect couples in joint terms - financially and otherwise. Having seen If These Wall Could Talk 2 and been impacted by the sheer ignorance and cold-blooded treatment of the bereaved 'widow' in the 1950's section I'm damn sure I want to be treated appropriately if and when anything happens to my loved one. I think the only thing that the gay community should be wary of, having seen something similar happen, is throwing themselves into a CPA blindly after a month of a relationship (it was love at first sight don't you know!) and then realising that it's not meant to be after all..this is a legal process..not just a holding of hands and exchanging of rings..so not as easy to reverse as moving all your stuff out, along with the cat. I think it's a positive move, not for pride's sake (because who the hell is proud, really, it's not about that it's about getting on with your life quietly and without repercussion) but for the genuine couples who are in it for the long haul, to offer protection, boundaries and rights just like the heterosexual community has. And people who oppose it? Well they need to sit the other side of the fence for a while and maybe then they'd realise that we aren't all out there trying to make a point. Some of us are just trying to live our lives with a persuasion dictated by gene, not by eccentricity, and want to be able to get on with it the same way everyone else does.