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Originally Posted by roachboy
matthew: if you, as a conservative, are going to accept how your political machine chooses to frame this issue, then you have to accept the consequences. so given that the christian right has chosen to frame their side of this conflict in terms of mobilized bigotry directed at folk who happen to be gay BECAUSE they are gay, then it follows that the issue, for people like yourself, can be little other than restricting the right of others to love as they choose. and the question of marriage is but a pretext.
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I don't think that necessarily follows. In fact, I think it very often doesn't. If there existed a desire in all gay marriage foes to restrict the right of others to love as they choose, then why are many in favor of civil unions? I'd estimate that the primary worry is that the government will be endorsing homosexual behavior and, therefore, undermining the opposing positions.
Aside, to anyone: If civil unions were allowed and made sufficiently similar/identical to the legal aspects of marriage, would the issue bother you as much? I'd agree that it wouldn't be a perfectly ideal situation, but it could be a situation where it really
is separate yet equal. Would it not be a much less important semantics argument at that point?