Amos...My stance throughout has been from the viewpoint of traditional Christians.

I think if homosexuals want civil unions they should have them, but as has been said many times, that does not satisfy the homosexual activists, who want re-definition.
It's all about "normalising" homosexuality but as I stated right at the begining, that will never happen while the vast majority of the worlds population perceives the act as disgusting.

And by the way, all this talk about homosexual animals is laughable.
My family have kept livestock of all kinds (hens geese sheep cattle) for nearly one hundred years, and although defiant behaviour does occur, it is extremely rare and can always be explained by stress of one sort or other