Some legislators, led by the irrepressible Sen. Chris Buttars (happy guy at right), forced the name change for the city's domestic partnership registry for siblings, long-term roommates, parents and gays because it might violate Utah's Amendment No. 3, banning same-sex marriage.

Alex Blaze of The Bilerico Project is baffled by the continuing name changes.

Wasn't "civil union" supposed to be the non-"marriage" long-term commitment of not-just-heterosexual-couples? Then wasn't "domestic partnership" supposed to be the watered down version of "civil union"? And now apparently that's too close to gay marriage, so there's another name being thrown out there?

It has even someone like me wondering when this ride will stop and people will find some kind of agreement on what these words all mean.

The name change should be accomplished, appropriately, on April 1, which is Buttars' birthday, and, of course, Fool's Day. And for perpetuity, MCF Pride Day.