[jliptzin]

He is clearly talking about same-sex marriage. And if you're trying to make a slippery slope argument against same-sex marriage, that's been done 1,000 times before and it hasn't served the "family values" crowd too well lately.

[notsony]

> He is clearly talking about same-sex marriage.

How do we know that? When did the word equality mean only heterosexual or homosexual couples?

It's a marketing myth that "gay marriage" is the same thing as "marriage equality". They are not the same, they are two very different things.

[dragonwriter]

> How do we know that?

Because marriage equality is a well-established term with a clear unambiguous usage in political discussions. Sort of like "pro-life" and "pro-choice", which could (divorced from context) each have a wide variety of possible meanings, but which, in the actual context of modern American political debate, have very specific meanings in terms of particular opposing positions regarding abortion policy.

> It's a marketing myth that "gay marriage" is the same thing as "marriage equality".

It would be more accurate to say that "marriage equality" is a brand that has been established by advocates of legal marriage without distinction based on the sex of the partners.