“Why they choose to take an institution , marriage (man and woman) and call themselves what they do not want to be is beyond me.”
Because in the case of marriage there is no “separate but equal” option due to, among other things, the Fifth Amendment protections extending specifically to one’s spouse. To make a civil union truly equivalent to a heterosexual marriage you would have to amend the US Constitution.
So what did they just do in New Hamshire?