First, I did not include rights regarding children in the list. MAJOR distinction.

I think this is, frankly, tinfoil-hat, Art-Bell, Face-on-Mars-being-covered-up-by-NASA, Area-51-alien looney, but I will note that I didn’t actually bring it up.

As to sending out Marriage announcements. It’s a free country, and it has a first amendment.

I am primarily concerned with the governmental issues related to same sex couples. Some of the issues you raised needed (apparently) government action to provide a humanitarian solution.

So, uh, you agree that the humanitarian and tax-law issues ought to be resolved to lead to equality of treatment, and you don’t care if people call it marriage, so long as it’s understood that it’s something different from marriage as defined by “tradition”.

I’ve got to say, this is getting way too scholastic for me.

How about we agree that we’ll call same-sex partnerships marriage, and you’ll call het partnerships marriage, and we just agree its two different things that happen to have the same name?