Consider that years ago, many of us weren't even for domestic partnerships for gays. That is, many didn't even think that a gay couple should be able to visit their sick spouse in the hospital.We changed. But we did so without accepting that homosexuality is acceptable.I am not for gay marriage. HOWEVER, I can understand how some, without accepting homosexuality, think that as a secular matter, gay marriage is really just domestic partnerships with a different name (and I suppose it really is).I know that there is no such thing as gay MARRIAGE, for that word means something specific and narrow. But so long as someone believed the practice of homosexuality was a sin, but didn't see any reason to withhold that status from them, seeing as we have already accepted domestic partnerships.