Gay Marriage?

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Civil rights is exactly what homosexual people are striving for

This is downright bs, for lack of a better word.

Tell me one job where a gay can be fired for his sexual orientation. Tell me one place a gay can't go. Tell me one institution that segregates gays from non-gay. etc.

Gays have all the same rights as non-gays. Read. They do. Please don't go off about how gays are persecuted, or how they have inferior social status. They quite simply don't.

The only reason anyone even opposes the idea of a gay marriage being called that, is because marriage is inherently religious. Or it once was.

You say you're open minded? Well, consider this:
Some people take marriage very seriously and view marriage as a highly religious affair. (The number of people that feel this way is far greater than the number of gay people, total.)

Calling a gay relationship by the same word you call a religious, heterosexual relationship is deeply offensive to those that feel marriage is a religious union. If you actually were open minded, you would realize that there are religious people in this world, and they too want to preserve marriage for what it once was.

But no. Your definition of 'open mindedness' is just anyone that agrees with you. Anyone else is 'narrow minded'.

I'm sorry, I thought this was a serious discussion. Clearly it's not. I hope what I said here did not seriously offend anyone, because that was never my intention.