Masterminor
Familiar Face
I never post on FP anymore, I stopped long ago for personal reasons. But after reading the posts here, I have to say something.
To all the people here saying to call it a civil union and not a marriage, how do you propose that same sex couples propose? Think about it. You're standing in front of your partner that you've known and loved for years. You're nervous to what he or she will say to your question. You take a breath, and you ask,
"Will you Civil Union with me?"
What the heck kinda question is that? I don't care how beautiful your voice or language is, there is virtually no way to ask that with love. Something that anything that is equal to a marriage should be.
Now with that bit of visualizing done, I really, really want you to think about how you word your opinion in your head. You want same sex marriage to not be called that, right? You want gay couples to have all the same rights as straight couples, that much is noble. Good for you, really I'm serious.
But here's the issue, you want same sex marriage to go by a different name than marriage to make it so that your definition of marriage is separate from it. You want it to be separate, but also equal. I really hope I don't have to go deeper into my point with that.
I would also like to bring one more thing to the attention of people commenting to just use a different name but they can have the same rights. I have to say by doing this, you take away the one basic right that gay couples want out of their struggle in same sex marriage, to call themselves married to their partners.
I know that last statement may get backlash something like "they can get still get married! Just to the opposite sex!" But if you're going to say that, you've missed the entire point and I do not wish to argue about it.
To all the people here saying to call it a civil union and not a marriage, how do you propose that same sex couples propose? Think about it. You're standing in front of your partner that you've known and loved for years. You're nervous to what he or she will say to your question. You take a breath, and you ask,
"Will you Civil Union with me?"
What the heck kinda question is that? I don't care how beautiful your voice or language is, there is virtually no way to ask that with love. Something that anything that is equal to a marriage should be.
Now with that bit of visualizing done, I really, really want you to think about how you word your opinion in your head. You want same sex marriage to not be called that, right? You want gay couples to have all the same rights as straight couples, that much is noble. Good for you, really I'm serious.
But here's the issue, you want same sex marriage to go by a different name than marriage to make it so that your definition of marriage is separate from it. You want it to be separate, but also equal. I really hope I don't have to go deeper into my point with that.
I would also like to bring one more thing to the attention of people commenting to just use a different name but they can have the same rights. I have to say by doing this, you take away the one basic right that gay couples want out of their struggle in same sex marriage, to call themselves married to their partners.
I know that last statement may get backlash something like "they can get still get married! Just to the opposite sex!" But if you're going to say that, you've missed the entire point and I do not wish to argue about it.
