Hawaii's State Senate just passed an orientation-neutral civil unions bill. Unlike other civil unions in other States, these civil unions would be available to both same-sex and different sex couples.
I support marriage equality in the sense of granting the same rights and legal nomenclature to couples without regard to couple's relative genders. Marriage equality for me could be literally civil marriage for same-sex and different sex couples, civil unions for everyone and civil marriage for no one, or nothing for anyone.
The Hawaii case is interesting because I've thought that legalizing orientation-neutral civil unions alongside heterosexual marriage could be a stepping stone toward marriage equality of the second kind: civil unions for everyone, civil marriage for no one.
