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Originally Posted by docbungle
See, I don't see banning gay marriage as denying anyone of their basic rights or liberties. Marriage was created as a union between man and woman. Gays wanting to "ammend" this process don't seem to understand the concept of marriage itself. If so, they would understand that marriage between two people of the same sex is impossible. That doesn't ban being gay, it just says that marriage is for boys and girls, not boys and boys or girls and girls.
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While you are correct about the origins of our marital concept, docbungle, I think you are ignoring the reality of the current state of the institution. What I mean is, no one (at this point) is trying to force churches to confer the sacrament of marriage on same-sex couples. They are trying to acquire the benefits that are conferred by the government. The government's willingness/ability to grant these benefits to one class of people/relationships and not another is a sign that one group enjoys a favored status, or that those benefits are not appropriate to governmental discretion and should be granted to no one. Incidentally, the phrase "tyranny of the majority" has a long history, and the entire reason for an independent judiciary was because the framers realized that some issues ought not be decided purely on popular vote.