I’m sorry but that’s just BS. Brown vs. Board was about keeping people in separate facilities where things could never be completely equal. In that case separate is inherently unequal. Legal rights on the other hand are abstract meaning they can be equal if the law says they are.
> Legal rights on the other hand are abstract meaning they can be equal if the law says they are.
But the law does not say they're equal, as has already been pointed out to you. And yes, pointing to civil unions — which embody a subset of the legal rights granted to legally married couples — as a justification for not granting full marriage rights to homosexual couples is a perfect demonstration of the fallacy of "separate but equal" institutions.
If civil unions really were a perfectly fine substitute for legally recognized marriage, do you think the civil rights movement would have been so up in arms about Proposition 8?
