"The "rights" issue is also different in that homosexuals have all the civil rights of heterosexuals through civil union"

Not in the USA.... and it is in the USA that the issue recently came to the fore.

read this

and this

It seems some are more equal than others.

Ake... you are like Pete 7* in that you have a conclusion based on some subjective interpretation of certain cherry-picked objective data, and you will use any rationalization to cling to to it.