What's the difference if gay people get married? Why should it make any difference to us?
What's the difference if Ziggy want's to marry his goat? Why should it make any difference to us?
What's the difference if Ziggy want's to marry the Andrews triplets? For that matter the Andrews triplets, the Benson twins, AND his goat? Why should it make any difference to us? What if he wants to marry his SISTER??" Equal protection" and all that, you know...
...but over here it is really about children and parental rights, as well as legal standing of mates. And it does mean a lot to the people involved.
True. And, to my knowledge, all those concerns are fully addressed/dealt with/resolved when gays enter into a "civil union" or "civil partnership" (whatever its 'title') because such agreements
mirror marriage by design...so, why the
i-n-s-i-s-t-a-n-c-e on the part of the LGBT community that they be "married" when all along their
supposed 'concerns' were just what you mentioned before: rights and legal standing, etc.? Well, civil unions
solve all that. So again I ask: Why the push for the "right" (no one has such a "right", BTW. It's not in the constitution) to be "married"? In traditional western societies, a gay union clearly is
not a "marriage" according to both centuries-old
tradition, and centuries-old
definition (as well as other reasons/concerns).
It just flat-out ISN'T. (Is the
true purpose behind this push, then, simply to
force churches to go against their teachings via the secular law route? Good luck with that...)
One may
choose to call an elephant a jiraffe all one wants,
but, according to the traditional definition (
not to mention common sense)
, an elephant clearly isn't a jiraffe and it can never be one.
JMHO.