You might be a redneck if you go to a family reunion to pick up women . . . or you might be in New Hampshire

A bill that would repeal New Hampshire’s 2009 law legalizing same-sex marriage would also allow two citizens of either sex to enter into a civil union — even siblings.

New Hampshire Republican state Rep. David Bates, the sponsor of the bill, confirmed this to The Daily Caller.

Asked about the logic behind allowing siblings to enter into civil unions, Bates responded, “You have that question backwards. By definition in the bill, a ‘civil union’ means a contractual agreement that provides reciprocal benefits and obligations to the parties to the agreement.”

“The proper question is: What logical or legally defensible reason is there to exclude anyone?” Bates said. “There is none.”

Actually, when California enacted its registered domestic partnership statute back in the early 2000's, it also included the provision that opposite sex partners could register, providing that one was at least 62 years old.  And it was made so preceisely for the reasons stated by Rep. Bates - for example, I could be in a regsitered civil union with my elderly father so that he could beome a dependent on my employee-supplied health insurance.

Perhaps this is a good chance for states to scrap "marriage" altogether and simply ay "civil unions."  Marriage would then be defined by a religious or spritual or intellectual entity.  So if sae-sex couples wanted to be "married", they can enter into a ivil union and then find some church to make it "marriage."