I live in Florida, where unfortunately, like CA and AZ and a myriad of other states, we just wrote discrimination into our State's Constitution. Unfortunately, it not only declared that "marriage is the legal union of one man and one woman as husband and wife," but also declared that "no other legal union that is treated as marriage or the substantial equivalent thereof shall be valid or recognized."
I believe it is high time that we need to stop saying "gay marriage." Marriage does not have a sexual orientation. The average person on the street hears the phrase "gay marriage" and at least partially thinks of a church ceremoney. There are GLBT people in opposite-gender unions.
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