Did you know that people in civil unions, as opposed to marriages, don’t get protections for families of crime victims? They can’t inherit their spouse’s estate, either. Actually, there are about 1,138 cool little features married people get that civilly unionized folks don’t get.

Somebody explain what, exactly, we’re protecting marriage from when we deny a dude who’s been with the same partner for 35 years the right to make his sick partner’s medical decisions at the end of his life.

Yes on 8: Let’s show the world that we didn’t learn a stinking thing from the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960′s.