And my point is, whats the difference between that and straight marriage? Why should the government sanction one kind of relationship between consenting adults and not another. Personally I dont think any relationship should be recognized by the government outside of custodial ones (ie. parent/child etc.), but if you're gonna start giving benifits for romantic partners, then it should be any kind of romantic partners, gay, straight, polygymous, as long as everyone is a consenting adult, have at it.