> Again the word has a heft independent of the rights. No one argues you
> don't need family law. And no one argues you can't modify marriage so
> it means something very different. But many feminists I know would be
> more than happy with laws which signified the liberatory intention to
> make a break with this feudal-and-worse past by burying the term.
I guess the obvious solution is that we should fight for marriage for gays and civil unions for straights :)
Michael