| > You think straight people are keeping something away from gays. I don't think anyone thinks straight people are keeping something away from gays. After all, the proportion of the population that supports marriage equality is much greater than the proportion that is gay. > But I think its gays trying to take something from straight people. As someone in a stable, opposite-sex marriage, I'd like to know what it is that gays are trying to take away from me. What that I had before equal marriage came to my state have I lost? Because I don't see it. > they want everyone to be forced to recognize their marriage. What they want is for their committed life partnerships to be treated the same way under the law as those of people who happen to prefer a life partner of the opposite gender. > So they are taking something - our freedom to interpret our own reality. You are free to "interpret your own reality", and I doubt any equal marriage supporter will argue against your right to do so. Your freedom to do so, however, does not give you the right to deny others equal protection under the law. The concepts aren't even related. > This is a kind of rabbit hole type revelation that spans many other issues and underpins my fundamental opposition to statism/slavery. And that is the kind of sentence that doesn't even begin to make sense in context. WTF are you talking about, seriously? |