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Originally Posted by Polar
According to your definition, single parent families are not considered 'real' families, either.
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No, not exactly. Single parents can marry someone to form a kinship if they choose to. Well, if they're not gay, anyway. If a gay couple wants to marry for the same reason, it's not allowed. This is because marriage is for "real" couples..."real" relationships..."real" kinship.
As it stands, gay couples can only have a family based on "civil unions" (except in states that prohibit even that). But marriage to some is a spiritual and religious experience/existence. By stating that marriage is only for heterosexual couples suggests that gay couples are "unmarriable." Why is that?
I'm not saying single parents don't have families or that gay couples don't. I'm saying that marriage is not available to gay couples because of discrimination against homosexual relationships—they can't choose marriage as a mode for creating a family if they want. I'm also saying that if a state legalizes it, the feds should stay out of it. And if the feds legalize it, the states should allow it.