Warspite
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How is my rights any more than theirs? I can't marry a guy either. But guess what? I can't shack up with a woman and get the same "domestic partnership" rights that they do. Which is something I don't understand. They get all the rights and privileges a married couple gets without the red tape of a marriage license yet a heterosexual non married couple doesn't and you're complaining about gay rights? Give me a break. Like other minorities, they don't want equal rights, they want special rights. But here's a clue: they can get married. They can have the $20K dream wedding, even get the Pope himself to perform the ceremony if he is so inclined. Nothing is stopping them. No, they want the piece of paper. Hell, if I got the same privileges they got without the legal hassle when my first marriage went to pot, I'd have never gotten married in the first place. So, in a sense I don't have the same rights as they do. They can adopt as a couple, put each other on their insurance, live together for a million years if they want but the whole issue is over a little piece of paper. Please.
If you were talking about a black person marrying a white person in Virginia 40 years ago you would not look out of place. "I can't marry black people either".