The people who are opposed to equal rights for gays-- and yes, that includes marriage-- are the intolerant ones. Period, full stop. It's stupid this is even a question.
This isn't an "equal rights" issue.
It's a
definitive propriety issue.
For example, is it an equal rights issue that cat-owners aren't allowed to enter their cats in a dog show?
Of course not, because
definitive propriety is always the foundational test to resolve an issue, and a cat is simply
not a dog, and thus cat-owners have
no right to enter their cats in a dog show.
Definititive propriety is tested
first, and only if its conditions are satisfied do rights and equality come into play as the next questions.
The same is true with respect to topical relevance.
A marriage has always been, for over 12,000 years, from just before the agricultural revolution, predating religion, predating modern history, up to the present, between a man and a woman as husband and wife, the
definition of marriage, isolated pocketed violations being meaningless with respect to the definition, just like people calling their cats dogs is meaningless, obviously.
So, is it an equal rights issue that SS couples aren't allowed to enter into a marriage, a marriage having always been between a man and a woman as husband and wife, the
definition of marriage?
Of course not, because
definitive propriety of what marriage
is -- between a man and a woman as husband and wife --
excludes SS couples right off the bat.
Thus the matter, logically, rationally, never moves to the next question of equal rights, as the matter was solved by the
foundational appeal to
definitive propriety.
50 years ago, gay activists realized this reality, and so they began the
oxymornic brainwashing campaign of simply using the phrase "gay marriage"/"same-sex marriage" for three generations, until it as a phrase is now so engrained in the minds of many that, instead of thinking rationally and reasoning for themselves, people have simply been psychologically seduced to accept these terms
as if they were true, when, obviously, they are
not, and the seduction is to the
ideological degree, with an
emotional underpinning and effect, and a pre-conceived ideological seed has thus been planted in the minds of the seduced.
When we think reasonably, rationally, according to the general guidelines for problem resolution in such matters, this matter is solved at the first and foundational test of
definitive propriety, and thus there's no need to even consider the
secondary tests of rights and equality.
But those brainwashed by the generations of hearing and reading the aforementioned oxymoronic phrases, their rational reasoning ability has been
compromised.