Thinking back, I first became aware of Gay Marriage/Civil Partnerships as an issue, was when listening to the radio while working in Ireland. (I live in the mainland UK.) A gay man who’s partner had died had lost half of his house to his partner’s homophobic parents because of the way that the law was set up. He was forced to sell the house and move into rented accomodation and because of the way the law worked at the time, there appeared to be no legal way around this, even if you knew in advance that one partner was going to die. This radio item absolutely made the case that a change in the law was needed.

A short time later a Christian organisation ran newspaper ads in the UK pointing out that Co-habiting brothers or sisters would face the same injustice. But instead of campaigning for said siblings to be accorded the same rights that were being proposed for gay couples, they preferred to use this as an argument against civil partnerships.
I think that this says quite a lot about their mentality.

Off to link to this at my favourite discussion board.

David B