Well, since some of you insist on bringing up incest of all things as a defence for why homosexuals should not be allowed to marry, let's look at it a little more deeply.
First off, the things that people fight for equal rights about are things that either 1) are fundamental to their way of life (i.e., religious practice and their freedom to choose whichever one they want) or 2) are not their choice and they therefore should not be segregated because of it (i.e., the colour of your skin).
Despite what any ignorant, ultra-conservative may think, homosexuality is NOT a choice. It is biologically determined. Period. You can try to argue that but you won't get far. Now, if it is not someone's choice whether or not they are homosexual or heterosexual, why the hell would we have any right discriminating against them in any way? Homosexual people are not fighting for the right to marriage because they want to shove their homosexuality down our throats or they want to impose their lifestyle upon us. They are fighting for it because they, and I, believe that they have every much the same right to legally declare their lifelong commitment to another person, and it should not matter what gender that person belongs to.
How would you like it if you fell in love with a black woman and wanted to marry her but the government told you that no, you are not allowed to commit yourself to that person because they are not what we have decreed as appropriate to marry. It is the same thing.
Now bringing up the incest thing reallymakes me wonder how these conservative minds work. Did allowing women the right to vote mean they took over the world and destroyed the men? No. Did allowing every ethnicity equal rights in Canada mean they destroyed what it means to be Canadian? Hell no! They defined what it means to be Canadian. Why on earth would allowing homosexuals to be married bring about ANYTHING else except homosexuals being married?
People may fight for other things, they are doing it already. Others have already pointed out that there are organizations fighting for the legalization of incest or animal lovin'. That doesn't mean that any of those things will ever be legalized.
And just on a side note, although incest may seem disgusting to many of us, it is actually quite prevalent around the world. It also partially depends on your definition, but there are many groups out there, be it, tribes, bands, or even monarchies that practice what is called endogamy. This means marrying within your own group. In many cases, it means marrying within your own family, specifically for the purpose of maintaining power. Now, it is not usually marrying your brother or sister, but more often involving cousins or slightly farther removed, but it would still be defined as incest. And for those of you (most of us in Canada) who come from western European heritage, there's a good chance that somewhere in your lineage, thousands of years ago when the population was much smaller, there was incest in your family. Sorry, but it's probably a fact.
So, get your proverbial heads out of your asses. Realize what the term equality really means and begin to understand that your conservative definition of what is "normal" is, most likely, so far from what is actually practiced around the world that many people would consider you not so "normal" yourself.
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