Quote Originally Posted by cheeseburger
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.
Wrong. Which religion(s)? Please don't mention any of the modern religions currently practiced. Marriage predates them all. Those that invoke the Lord to sanctify the marriage originally did so to appease and attract new members... just as they tended to adopt other "pagan" practices to attract new members.

Second, quote your source. I would dispute your statistics even exist. Presuming you could even quantify the statement "highly religious" and thereby take a poll, I doubt anyone has made this study. You base your arguements on statements of fact that aren't facts at all, they too are just your opinions.

So regardless of one's position on the topic, you continue to invalidate any reason for participating in the debate by basing your arguements on fallacious facts and non-existant statistics.