Irvine511
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nathan1977 said:
Because if we are going to give marriage civil right status, then, legally speaking, there are a host of alternative lifestyles that might clamor for the same opportunity....as this thread has proven.
how is being gay an alternative "lifestyle"? or how is it comparable to what might be deemed alternative "lifestyles"?
but, regardless, the above is, i think, a misformulation. it's not that marriage is a civil right, it's that there are 1049 rights that are conferred when one gets married, and the institution itself is discriminatory towards gays in the way that it was once discriminatory towards interracial couples. thus, there are certain rights that no gay person can have access to, unless they were to marry a person of the opposite sex -- which, obviously, happens -- and it seems that such a relationship could be deemed fraudulent.