Opinion:   “Domestic partnerships have all the rights and benefits of marriage, so eventually gay rights activists push to call it "marriage." The compromise is used as the hammer to push for same-sex "marriage."

Fact:  Domestic partnership recognition is sought in places where full marriage rights are seen as currently unattainable. But even if there is any "hammering", people have a right to do that. Civil rights activists, gay and straight, can't 'push' citizens and legislators to cast specific votes. Those votes are choices made in response to personal conscience. Either you believe people have the right to create their own state laws, or you believe in tyranny. And if you believe citizens don't have the right to make marriage more inclusive, then you must also believe that citizens don't have the right to make it more exclusive.