>If the law says that married and unmarried couples are to be treated equally...then immigration officials will treat married and unmarried couples equally.

In your pie in the sky world, I'm sure they will. In reality, not so much.

I deleted my point about your support being "quiet and ineffective", as I didn't have a justification for that - sorry. But I do think you are very naive in thinking that undermining the importance of marriage as a legal institution is a good way to advance rights for gay couples.