Okay, here's my (insert rude polical leaning term here) take on this issue:
The US government should pass a law that changes the word "Marriage" to the words "civil union between two persons" in every law on the books.
"Marriages" could then still be a religeous act, a sort of superset of a civil union (IE: you can be both married and civil unioned, or just civil unioned... marriage by itself would be an empty legal term). As a result and by default, all "spousal" policies would end up applying to anyone who is "civil unioned".
It seperates the issue of equal treatment of all people from the religeous issue of the preservation of the instituion of marriage.
just my humble opinion.
Alex
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