| mrstickball said: @Starcraft - great points. I think that a lot of the homosexual movement, anymore, is not about equality, but acceptance. It's fine to have equality (and in most every instances, they do have it in the US), but the greater issue is that they're now fighting for acceptance of their lifestyle as being equal, and the same as heterosexuality. That's a far different issue, and should not be dealt with by rights activists. |
I quite agree.
The question of gay "marriage" as a definitional ideal has nothing whatsoever to do with rights in-and-of-itself. I quite agree that things like social security benefits and the like have everything to do with rights though.
But marriage itself has simply become an unfortunate false symbol of what many gays would consider to be the straight community "accepting" them. I don't believe that homosexuals at large are responsible for this. Blame lies largely at the feet of the hard-left activist movement that simply bays for right-wing blood regardless of the issue or the response. In this instance however, that bloodlust has resulted in the vast majority of humanity facing a painful insult, including people from all walks of political life, from right wingers to centrists like myself.
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