ADF Senior Counsel Glen Lavy, writing in USA Today:
The most common misunderstanding in the debate is that domestic partnerships are needed to convey benefits. The truth is that benefits may be conveyed in a myriad of ways. Plus, legal relationships can be established to give benefits to any two persons who may not legally marry: for example, a grandmother and grandson. Benefits are a non-issue. The proof is that same-sex couples in California, even when given all the benefits of marriage, wanted more.
Clearly, something else is at stake.
The truth is that domestic partnerships are a Trojan horse used to obtain same-sex “marriage.” When first conceived, domestic partnerships were meant to be an imitation of marriage and were specifically designed with same-sex couples in mind. The message they sent to society was this: The relationships are of equal value; we just call them by different names.
