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Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
I don't see how that reading doesn't still allow a state legislature to decide that it believes that the "right" thing to do is to provide a marriage-equivalent for gays called civil unions. Not because the state constitution or state law requires it, but because it's desirable policy.
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Because the state law cannot require any private or public entity to confer the same benefits on the couple joined by civil union as they do on the couple joined by marriage.