Rawr.

Because quite frankly Sars says it best.

If everything about a civil union is the same as a het marriage -- power of attorney, joint filing, et cetera -- except the word, then what's the point? You'd just use the same word. Unless, of course, what you really have a problem with isn't the word itself, but the concept of anal sex, or lispy men preying on their own children, or whatever backward shit Karl Rove told you about homosexuals that I for one thought we'd put to bed back in the early nineties.

You'll have to scroll down just a bit to read the whole thing.