Sam wrote:
> I'll try again. The way our society understands marriage is between a
> man and a women. That's the way nature intended. If a couple can't
> have a child and adopt of use a test tube they're still doing what
> nature intended, they just have a handicap or a good heart.
> What I'm hearing now is people wanting it to be accepted that nature
> intended gay marriage just as readily as heterosexual. I'm just saying
> it's acceptable but not what nature intended. You know the whole
> evolution thing.

Okay.  I guess I just see being gay as a similar handicap as being 
barren, for these purposes.

>>You make the assumption that I want to change morals.  My morals tell me
>>that treating someone as though they were a lesser person just because
>>they're gay is wrong.
> 
> Not giving them the label marriage is not treating them lesser, it's
> just noticing a difference. Think Miss, Mrs., Ms and Mr. Why are we
> not equal?

In my opinion, requiring separate labels *is* treating them differently 
and, for that matter, as lesser.  How many little girls do you know who 
grew up dreaming of the day they'd be in a civil union?

As for gender labels like Miss, Ms., and Mr., I should point out that 
Ms. was largely created due to a rejection of the differentiation 
between Mrs. and Miss.  That is, a large number of women wanted to 
eliminate the separate labels.  Kinda ended up broken in the end, but 
that was the intent.

--Ben


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