I’ve been married for 26 years, and I can honestly say that the issue of gay marriage/civil unions has played no part in any of our relationship’s more vulnerable moments. Periodically, my husband and I have felt the strain of finding affordable-yet-adequate day care, lack of health care, stagnant wages, and rising energy and housing costs, though. So it was really good to see that David Englin had the courage to stand up and say this:

"So I would like to know, how exactly do civil unions and domestic partnerships and other similar arrangements threaten my marriage?
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So I would like to know, how exactly do civil unions and domestic partnerships and other similar arrangements threaten my family?"

I’d like to know, too, because as far as I can tell, they don’t.