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Argument: Civil couples meet greater legal complications than married gays

Issue Report: Civil unions vs. gay marriage

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“Civil unions called second-class status.” Sun Journal. February 17, 2008: “A commission established to study same-sex civil unions in New Jersey has found in its first report that civil unions create a ‘second-class status’ for gay couples, rather than giving them equality.[…] [the report] find[s] that gay couples in Massachusetts, the only state that now allows same-sex marriage, do not experience some of the legal complications that those in New Jersey do [where there are civil unions].”