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Originally Posted by Traditional_Ale
Don't see how that is bigotry.
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And I'm sure that racists don't see anything wrong with their beliefs either.
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I don't think gays are evil, wrong, or anything of the sort. I do think, however, that the gay community is really shooting itself in the foot by demanding a change in the definition of marriage as opposed to inventing their own unique word.
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They are trying to show people that for all intrinsic purposes that they are the same in every way except one to everybody else and would like to belong in society as an equal and normal. By having a separate name for their union, they ostracize themselves from their desire to be seen as the same as everybody else.
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Obviously there are some conventions of the traditional marriage that do not lend itself to homosexual couples that would otherwise be moot or easily dealt with under a unique term for legally recognized homosexual unions.
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Every culture has its own traditions and customs when it comes to things like marriage, and obviously any gay marriage would have things different than a man/woman marriage, does that mean that it is categorically different than the man/woman marriage. Perhaps we should not recognize marriages from other cultures as marriages because they don't get married in the same fashion as we do.
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I expect in 40 years our kids (especially the gay ones) will look back and say "I can't believe the gay community in 2008 was so selfish as to demand that society bend over backward for them on such an arrogant technicality. What an abuse of civil liberties and freedom of expression it was. Thank god things now are much better."
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I hope that our society does not regress by such large amounts in the next 40 years. How dare they. Why would anyone want to be accepted as normal and not as some sort of freak.
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Who knows, maybe we'd actually see some gay people holding hands in public if they weren't so afraid the local Albertans would lynch them because their brethren in ONT/QUE are putting up a huge (and offensive) stink.
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Perhaps if people in Alberta were more forward thinking, then gay people in Alberta would not feel ostracized for being who they are.