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which grants them maybe one twentieth of the legal rights afforded by a marriage.

OK, if people are so opposed to gay marriage (not saying they are, but if...) why not just create something that has, in one blanket motion, all the legal and civil rights of marriage but is a purely civil ceremony between any two consenting adults, and call it 'googlesnork'?

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