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Originally Posted by Burninator
You can't be 100% equal and not the exact same. Being equal and being the same have the identical meaning. It's like saying you would give up liberty for more freedom.
If you give gay marriage a different name it's not equal. If you gave straight marriage a different name it's not equal. The only way to have things equal is to give everyone the exact same marriage rights.
I understand you don't like the idea, that's fine, you can have whatever view point you want. But stop saying you want everyone treated the same when it's clear you don't.
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I'm all for gay marriage as I think everyone deserves equal rights. However, I'll have to disagree with your comment.
Being equal doesn't neccessarily mean being the same. As mentioned above, men and women enjoy equal rights here. Does that make them them the same? Another example is being a Catholic, a Muslim, an Atheist, etc. I'm sure you'll agree they're not the same. But they do enjoy equal rights.
In fact, by labelling it "gay" marriage and "straight" marriage, you yourself are distinguishing one from the other. Really, the only difference is semantics, but there's a difference nonetheless.