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Originally posted by CaptainCrunch@May 17 2005, 09:11 PM
Saying that you support traditional marriage does not mean that your intolerant of homosexuals. I don't know where you get that from. It dosen't mean that they are against Homosexuals getting married, they just don't want to call it marriage. In fact Harper talked about a social union, the same as marriage in every way but name. Ohhhh what a boogie man.
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I completely disagree. Having two definitions for the same thing is discrimination. The hetero's get the "real" marriage while the homos get the "civil unions." What is the point in that? To appease Christian fundamentalists? All it does is say you're not good enough for the real marriage. We can't ban you completely from marrying so we've been forced to give you this other version of it. We won't allow you to share our term because we don't agree with your lifestyle and still want you to be considered sub-standard, we don't want to be seen as condoning your lifestyle.
Some people value equality. They want gays to feel normal, they don't want them to be discriminated against. They want to be tolerant of them and allow them to have the same status, privileges and rights that hetero's have. Allowing the "traditional" definition of marrige for hetero's and "civil unions" for gays does not do that. It segregates. It divides. It is discriminatory.