Defense of Marriage amendments are a preventive step to legalizing gay marriage. And likewise I would support Civil Union if the debate ended there.
But gay civil union is leverage, that leads to gay marriage, that leads to hate-crime laws that smother all dissenting speech and thought.
As demonstrated in Canada:
http://www.ignatiusinsight.com/features/mobrien_thoughtcrime_sept04.aspAlso, as with
Proposition 8 in California, higher court judges have an annoying habit of overturning the will of the people, even when traditional marriage is codified into law, and gay marriage is soundly rejected.
It speaks volumes about how the public REALLY feels, when gay marriage is even rejected in a liberal utopia like California.
And volumes as well in the tyranny of the Left, to overturn that will by one elitist judge.