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Originally Posted by hoovhartid
For me, marriage is just a word. Using it to describe something other than a union between a man and a woman has never threatened my societial building blocks.
"the marriage of music and dance";
"a marriage of ideas";
"married to their work";
"he's married to the mob";
"a marriage between two companies"
...Its a word used in many places to describe a union having nothing to do with a man and a woman.
I could care less about what its called.
I do, however, care about equality, and some laws are written to only include rights and privelages for those who are married. Tax breaks, custody rights, visitation rights, all just a few examples where laws have proclusions for those who are married. Using the actual term "marriage" or "married".
So.... I dont care how it happends, but to make things equal....either gays should have the right to marry, or all the laws that include marriage will need to be rewritten.
Which is faster? costs less money? easier?
How much money has gone into limiting the use of a word?
I'd rather be running my revo.
Am I gay? 
Only for the lincPimp and thats only on wednesdays! 
No....I'm not gay. But I think we all know someone who is. I happen to know alot of gay people. Some of them care to be married, some could care less. Just like the heterosexual people I know...some care, others dont. I just think everyone should have the same rights. Even the right to call their union whatever they want....weather they want to use the word marriage or not should be upto the couple...not a bunch of others who live in fear for no reason. |
That's fine you feel marriage is just a word - but with all due respect, the fact is that words have meanings. Especially marriage.
And I'm all for equality too - when it exists and not when it doesn't. That's what this comes down to. Homosexual unions are not equal to heterosexual unions. The tax breaks and all that stuff go with marriage because of what that union provides to society. Doesn't that make sense? How can you say the two things are equal when they're not?
And I really don't understand the comments about " . . . others who live in fear . . . " I have no idea how you can judge the intentions of others as "fear" when they simply don't agree with you.