And Now The Gays Sue Hawaii + Gov. Linda Lingle For Neither ‘Marriage’ Nor ‘Civil Unions’

Gov. Linda Lingle vetoed Hawaii’s civil unions bill because the benefits it bestowed gay couples sounded too much like marriage. So now the ACLU, on behalf of six pairs of ‘mos, is suing Lingle and the state — not to get the words “marriage” or “civil unions,” but to demand the courts grant them the same rights Hawaii’s Constitution, which bans sex discrimination, supposedly affords them.