It's a human rights issue plain and simple. How is it any different than women being allowed to vote or people of African descent being allowed to use the same fountain?
If you set aside a group of people and give them a different set of rules, even if you feel it's just a TERM, it's prejudice plain and simple.
And the argument 'it's not the group, it's the act' doesn't fly either. Lots of straight couples do the same things as gay couples. (and yeah I'm feeling a bigger argument behind this point, but I can't figure out how to refine it without making the rest of the post suffer, so I'm going to leave it unless anyone challenges it)
Lastly, anyones religious beliefs are fine. They can feel whatever they want. But last time I checked, we don't base our society on one groups interpretation of morality. Nor do we base it on a 2000 year old book that is largely incorrect historically and scientifically.
We base our societies, and this goes for documents written on both sides of the border, on the equality of everyone.
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