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So in other words, you're trying to create controversy where none exists, presumably for personal gain. Yeah, that's a good idea.
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I would have said for personal entertainment and insight into others thoughts on the matter, but you got the idea. I don't see that I have much to personally gain other than that.
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Nothing hypocritical about it, it's about equality. If two heterosexual consenting adults can get married and gain these rights, then why can't two homosexual consenting adults get married and get those same rights? There is no rational reason whatsoever that it cannot and should not happen.
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And if the government said that Christians wouldn't have pay taxes, there would be nothing hypocritical about Muslims fighting for equal rights by claiming that only Jews should pay taxes?
I don't buy it. You see that one group is being given unjust special priviliges, you fight for equality by saying "Hey! Don't be giving them unjust special priviliges."
You don't fight for equality by saying "Hey! Give my group unjust special priviliges too!"
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Of course it's hypocritical. They anti-gay-marriage people want to be special, they want to have rights that no one else has and status above everyone else. The religious side wants to push their zealous religious beliefs on everyone else (along with a good helping of "we're better than you"). How can you see that as anything but hypocritical?
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Umm... How about because they arn't claiming not to? Saying "Im better than you so I am going to shove my religious beliefs down your throat" isn't hypocritical, its just stupid.
Hypocritical isn't just a fancy word to describe people you disgree with. It involves an element of betraying ones own principals on a matter.
For example, if one were to proclaim that it wasn't fair for people to get special priviliges for belonging to a particular group, and then turn around and ask for special priviliges for belonging to a particular group,
that would be hypocritical.
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The government has no place making any relationship "moral" and gay-marriage advocates don't want any priviliges that straight-marriages don't currently have, so where you get off thinking they're special is beyond me.
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Gay marriage advocates want people in a same-sex matrimonial relationship to get special priviliges that people in a same sex fraternal relationship are not. Priviliges not granted to seven people who start a commune, pool all their assests, file jointly and take care of each other. Priviliges not granted to people in opposite sex platonic co-habiting finanically co-depent relationships.
Marriage is a religious/cultural/spiritual union, and the government has no business being invloved in it.