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Originally Posted by GirlySports
This is a great point.
I've also read alot lately of people voting YES automatically labelled as homophobes (by the losing side). This is not necessarily true. You can be for gay rights and letting them have civil union but not "marriage".
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I disagree. You don't have the same rights if you are given a different title. I think an excellent way to look at this debate is to replace "gay" with some of sort previously oppressed minority, like "black".
Example:
I've also read alot lately of people voting YES automatically labelled as racists (by the losing side). This is not necessarily true. You can be for black rights and letting them have civil union but not "marriage".
I think the comparison of blacks and gays is fair because it has been shown that it is not as simple as being gay "is a choice" as some people state. In fact the science very much points in the other direction.
The overwhelming evidence from science shows that gender preference is primarily determined by our genetics and prenatal biochemistry, especially embryological hormone balance. Almost everyone is born attracted to members of the opposite sex. A small percentage — perhaps as few as one to two percent (but probably not as high as ten percent, as some estimates have put it) — are attracted to members of the same sex.
Asking a homosexual when he or she chose to become gay is like asking a heterosexual when he or she chose to become straight. The answer you will get (I know because I’ve asked) is “Uh? I didn’t choose. I’ve always felt that way.” And that’s the answer I get from straights as well as gays.
http://skepticblog.org/2008/11/04/gay-marriage/
If you think that under the laws of the state that straights get married and gays get civil unioned and that you claim that you are for gay civil rights, then I content that you are not.