A recent question on Jeopardy! may have snuck a bit of political discourse into the game show. The $800 clue for a category called “Civil” was, “Some opponents of same-sex marriage say, hey gay folks, how about these? Wouldn’t these be good enough?” The answer – or question, rather – was “civil unions.” According to Slate:
The clue writers’ flippant tone in the rhetoric attributed to gay marriage opponents is clear evidence of how they—like most gay people—feel about civil unions as an alternative to full marriage equality: They are a weak attempt at placation that suggests second-class citizenship, if not a kind of segregation.