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I don't disagree with you. I'm not suggesting what is right and fair. I'm suggesting how it can be won. Winning it on the equality front will be a long, tenuous and not assuredly a successful route. Going after it on the family route is practically an impregnable position. You've participated in enough of these debates on this issue, here, Hatuey. The equality debate gets slammed and countered, repeatedly, and often ends in a stalemate. Usually I wait until the smoke clears, present my family/child position in a few posts and the only ones who go after me are those who expose themselves as bigots who have no position or substantiation.
It's not about what is right, but what can be won. The pro-GM movement needs to bite the bullet, abandon the equality position and use the family/child debate. Does it really matter how they get what they want, as long as they get it?
I think it should be on grounds of privacy the same way that Roe V. Wade was won. A marriage is a contract between two individuals and nobody else. Not society, not religion and not the opposers of gay marriage.