Same Sex Marriage Fails

The Oregon Supreme Court rejected the 3000 gay marriages that were registered by Multnomah County last year, saying that counties have no authority to do that kind of thing. Finally a decision that I can agree with. Not because I am for or against gay marriage (although my friends know where I stand), but because neither the courts or the counties had the legal authority to do that sort of thing. By this decision the courts recognized that it is not them, but the legislature that is supposed to take care of this sort of thing.
And with the constitutional amendment passed by voters last year mandating that marriage be considered a union between a man and woman only, the legislature is going to be limited to just creating some sort of civil union.
And once again the debate is going to boil down to how many rights do you give gay couples, in that if you give them ALL the rights of married couples, what's the difference? Why are we fighting this in the first place?