Jonah,
Considering the tone and direction/trend of your recent posts, it can hardly be a surprise that a gay prof would agree with you. I’m also a little shocked that you appear to see the devaluation of marriage or the redefinition of marriage (any twosome) or the need for a special gays only union as remedy for a flawed visitors list. Let’s get real, we don’t need to reorder society for the benefit of gays. If we have laws or policies that unfairly harm gays than change them.
Of course, I could be wrong but I see a trend where we all will sooner or later have to accept the Jerry Springer show as portraying “normal” events and behaviors (note the growing references to “trans-gendered and whatnot).

My response: I’ve gotten a lot of email like this. All I can say, again, is my position in favor of some form of civil unions is derived partly to avoid outright gay marriage. Yes, I think there’s a fairness issue to gays involved too. But I also think that if conservative opponents don’t make some concessions — short of actual gay marriage — then they will lose entirely. That’s my non-partisan analysis.