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Originally Posted by Caged Great
And I'm sure that racists don't see anything wrong with their beliefs either.
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Not talking about racism.
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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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Under the umbrella of humanity we have humans, and then next come white/black/red/yellow/straight/gay/trans-gendered/catholic/protestant/muslim etc etc etc....
Sorry, but we are not all the same.
I think a big problem is that being "equal" and being "the same" are very different.
Gays are equal to me. Gay unions is not the same as marriage.
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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.
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The only argument I have against gays getting married is the specific use of the word "marriage." Technically they would be incredibly similar, yes.
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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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In the event of polygamy or under-aged marriage, we don't. But again, despite the aesthetics of the marriage, chances are its a heterosexual union.
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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's calling anyone a freak? I'm arguing that for total mainstream acceptance of homosexuals and their lifestyle (including legally recognized unions entailing equal rights) then perhaps the homosexual community should leave this heterosexual term alone.
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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.
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I wish gay people would understand that the hostility they get in places like Alberta comes from what is perceived to be a blatant attack on something fundamentally important to the majority of the local population. By that I mean this marriage debate, and not the anatomical details of homosexual's sex life.