California Same Sex Marriage Ban Unconstitutional

"Since Jan. 1, same-sex couples registering as domestic partners in California have been granted virtually all the rights and responsibilities of marriage, including access to divorce courts, the ability to collect child support and responsibility for a partner's debts."

Is this really true? My understanding is that there are over one thousand rights granted by civil marriage. How many of those rights does CA's domestic partnership option grant?

And there's always the troublesome fact that, unlike "married" couples, once a domestic partnership couple crosses state lines, they lose all their rights.


I think the solution to this issue will probably come by separating "civil" unions/marriages from "religious" ones, with civil unions/marriages granting exactly and all the same civil and legal rights to opposite and same sex couples, and with religious institutions granting sacramental unions/marriages to whomever they choose.