“It’s very dear to me, the issue of gay marriage. Or, as I like to call it: ‘marriage.’ You know, because I had lunch this afternoon, not gay lunch. I parked my car; I didn’t gay park it.”
—Liz Feldman
@RealEyesRealizeRealLies What is said at a wedding—any wedding—depends on the couple. No one read the “I now pronounce you _____” line at my wedding because it wasn’t part of the ceremony we chose. As for bathrooms, I don’t see the parallel. They are separated for privacy and safety reasons, not because some people think that one sex should have real bathrooms and everyone else should just have something similar. It’s real bathrooms for all as far as I know.
I don’t quite get your other examples, either. People of any height are already allowed to try out for the NBA. Same with the other jobs you mentioned. There are qualifications for each of those jobs, however, that make people with certain qualities less likely to get them than people with different qualities. That’s differential hiring based on ability, not based on some arbitrary trait. As Florynce Kennedy once said: “There are very few jobs that actually require a penis or vagina. All other jobs should be open to everybody.” The issue is relevance.
@ScurvyChamp Same-sex couples are just as capable of raising children as opposite-sex couples who are sterile. Both have the option of adopting. And if someone argues that gay people shouldn’t be allowed to adopt because they can’t get married, they’d just be getting themselves into a circular argument. I would suggest, then, that even arguments about the putative purpose of marriage won’t work. There’s just no good reason to be opposed to letting same-sex couples get married.
@Sunny2 Churches can already deny rites to anyone they choose, and legalizing same-sex marriage won’t change that.