Civil unions are available in places to contend with certain legal issues. and in places where that is not avialable, homosexuals are as free as anyone else to use a lawyer to give anyone they want power of attorney over their affairs, just as marriage does for a heterosexual couple. Spouses are considered immune in a court of law because of conflicts of interest. Likewise it's probably fine to assume that the conflict of interest for homosexual couples will also be recognized by a judge or jury and an attorney can plead the same in that case.

So basically, the next question would be, why don't homosexual couples use the law as it is available to them to obtain the same things that marriage does for a heterosexual couple? why don't they simply do that? The only answer is that that is not really what they want. Because if it were, then they would simply do it.

No, what they actually seem to want is the title Mr and Mrs. and to force the entire world to close their eyes to the fact that are actually Mr and Mr. What they actually want is the entire world to pretend that they believe their union is holy and blessed by God when in fact the whole world does not believe that.

They are trying to change beliefs, not laws, and that really is the issue.