One important thing that I don't think anyone has mentioned is that the bills that were voted on were very... limited, would be the word I guess. And make the country seem a little more discriminatory that it really is.
The question proposed in them was whether or not to support homosexual marriage, not civil unions.
Only 35% of the nation currently supports homosexual marriage but 65% support civil unions. Anyone who expected a "marriage" bill to pass was delusional. In most states though, a "civil union" bill would have passed. The problem is that, despite all the talk of these "civil unions", there is no legal definition of what one is, therefore we can't vote on whether we want that or not.
Before homosexuals can be granted a civil union, the government needs to remove all mentionings of the word "marriage" from within itself and leave that term to those that perform a religious ceremony and adopt the term "civil union" as a government-recognized institution of two committed individuals.
