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Originally posted by Marchhare
How is allowing gay marriage cramming anything down anyone's throat?
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The comment you responed to with this was a generalization, and not specific to the gay marriage debate.
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On the other hand, by not allowing homosexuals to get married, gay couples are affected.# They're having the beliefs of others crammed down their throats.
I don't understand why so many people fail to recognize that distinction.
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Because it works both ways. People that consider a marriage to be a union between a man and a woman, or in my personal case, a
formal union between a man and a woman, are having others beliefs crammed down their throats when they are being told their beliefs are irrelevent.
The "second class citizen" argument is pretty weak as well. A homosexual relationship is different from a heterosexual relationship. Similaraly, simply living with a person long enough is different than formally being married. These are different things, thus different terms.