FOR THE MOMENT, CONCENTRATE ON BEING CIVIL: From the Los Angeles Times

...For the foreseeable future, we should let the heterosexuals keep marriage as their special right. We gays want the legal benefits of marriage to protect and stabilize our families. And we want the status of full equality for our humanity's sake. But the first can be solved with civil unions. Despite the humiliation of "settling" for anything less than full marriage, it is better than losing access to the benefits of civil unions in the wake of the backlash.

Frankly, it would be selfish to our families, to our children, to risk being denied protective civil-union laws because of a losing effort to stick our thumbs in the face of fundamentalists. We can let them have their sacred institution and then lead the way to the more progressive civil-union model.

Many Americans of goodwill support our movement but remain skittish about the prospect of gay marriage. We cannot afford to alienate them now. Frankly, we need all the support we can muster.

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