According to Colorado Sen. Pat Steadman, if one opposes, not civil unions, but merely a clause in the bill that would allow adoption agencies, on First Amendment religious liberty grounds, to refuse to place a child in a home with two mothers or two fathers, then such people:

“ . . . want them [gay people] in the back of the bus . . . There are bakeries that sell cakes and cookies and say it is against their religon if a gay couple wants to buy a cake . . . You never hear tales of pettiness or denial of service when it’s gold or platinum or diamonds that are involved . . . G-d told me to hate you or at least hate your sin  . . . bakeries that serve the public aren’t supposed to look down their noses at one particular class of persons and say we don’t sell xxx cakes to you . . . Go inside your church, establish separate water fountains if you want . . . ”