Reply #10: it's just not quite the same. First of all, civil unions are about rights [View All]

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not facilities. Of course ending Jim Crow was more than about integrating facilities. Secondly, civil unions can be a stepping stone. I'll wager that VT within the next two legislative sessions, passes a marriage for all law. In which case, VT will be the first state to institute gay marriage via the legislative process rather than the judicial one. If, as expected, this happens, it civil unions here, will have served to have paved the way.

Sure, civil unions are a compromise, but they're stepping stones. Jim Crow laws were nothing of the kind.