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Why are some people so against officiating the life-long friendship of two people whose only difference from traditional married couples is that they're both of the same sex?
More important, why is this friendship compared to the acts of bigots, pedophiles, and the incestuous? They aren't the same. There are already many healthy homosexual relationships in the world; the same cannot be said, necessarily, about the other things brought up here, especially within the context of the legitimacy of marriage.
Gay marriage is far closer to heterosexual marriage than any of these other things. People need to get their head around that.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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