You keep saying this throughout the thread. You are misinformed. Marriage and civil unions are legally different things with different rights, responsibilities, and scope.
They are legally the same in Connecticut and other states. Not all, but in some. But it's not equal in the "institutional" sense so we should just redefine marriage in states instead of building civil unions with the same framework as marriages and have two seperate but equal legal frameworks.
There are civil unions, and there are marriages - and if it was simply about "rights" and "benefits", then people wouldn't give a c*ap which group they were in.
However, even though they have civil unions (in many countries/states), they also want to redefined marriage.
I'm not saying that's wrong or right - that's an argument I won't go into here.
However, to try to pretend that this is anything but redefining something is pretty deceptive.
Maybe they'll win, and we will redefine marriage. Who knows.