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Just because people believe that it is a choice to be gay doesn't mean that it isn't discrimination to purposely deny them legal benefits.
Traditionally marriage used to be based more on ties and property instead of on love. But marriage as it currently exists is based mainly on love.
Again it is not acceptable for you to decide who is remiss in their ways and who is not, I breed snakes as a hobby and frequently get all kinds of negative comments about it and people that want to keep me from doing it just because they do not like them, which is precisely what you are doing to people who have no desire for the opposite sex.
As others have pointed out, the definition of marriage has changed before, and it can change again. The basic definition of marriage used to be a man of a certain race + a woman of that same race, and then it changed to simply a man + a woman. According to your logic, men and women wanting to marry outside their race were not being discriminated against because the definition of marriage was what it was, and they could choose to take advantage of that or not. I hope you see how flimsy that premise is, especially when there's no demonstrable reason beyond human fear and ignorance not to allow something like that. The reason the race argument is brought up is because outside of certain religious notions, there is little to no difference in what they're asking for. And as the government is not to recognize one religious preference over others, it only stands to reason that gay and lesbian people be given the right to wed the one they love. The bible does, after all, say to 'render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's.' (matthew 22:21).
That is dictating their rights not giving them their rights. And you would have the same rights that they do you could choose to marry a woman so you would actually have more rights than you do now, And when you tell us that you have no desire to marry someone of the same sex sit back and think about it and you may realize what you are saying.
Actually it is discrimination and the Supreme Court of CA declared it as such as have the Supreme Courts of other states and the governments of other countries.
But those people that believe it is a choice are not scientists, scholars or Psychologists so why should there uneducated opinion matter?
Actually if you want to go the traditional route it is not based on love or kids but purely on economic points, how about we base marriage solely on the dowry system and parents can go back to deciding who their kids marry based on who can give them the most goats.
Sarcasm. I am saying that if gays are wanting to marry for insurance, they're no better than the straights who marry for insurance. That's not a valid reason to justify changing the definition of marriage.
