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Homosexuals don't want marriage: just a symbol to make them look equal

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Gay Couple with child (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Whatever same-sex marriage is, that’s not what gays are after. They are after a symbolic vehicle that can make them equal to people who can do something they cannot—procreate. The briefs filed in Hollingsworth v. Perry , the Supreme Court case on California's Proposition 8 , reveal something odd. Much of the debate over same-sex marriage has been a fight over metaphors. Can a same-sex couple mean the same thing as a man and a woman, even if the body parts are not identical? Can domestic partnerships mean “separate but equal” and embody a new Plessy v. Ferguson ? Is Proposition 8 analogous to “separate but equal”? Is gay the new black? Is California of 2008 a metonym for Virginia in the Loving case? Are gay couples the same thing as infertile straight couples? Is homophobia like Jim Crow? Humbug. Since California has domestic partnerships with all the same legal benefits as marriage for same-sex couples, the material difference ...

The end is (not) near in homosexual “marriage” debate

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 ( Family Research Council ) - The mainstream media would have you believe that the decision to redefine marriage for the benefit of homosexual couples has already been made. Time  magazine ran a cover story under the title,  “How Gay Marriage Won” —featuring cover photos of a male couple kissing or a female couple kissing—your choice. Pollsters claim that a majority of Americans now support legalizing same-sex “marriage,” and that among young people, that majority is overwhelming. Democratic senators (and a couple of Republicans) who previously opposed redefining marriage have begun falling like dominoes. Same-sex “marriage” is “inevitable,” we are told—it is only a matter of time. Do not believe it. In a country where 41 out of 50 states still define marriage as the union of a man and a woman, and voters in a majority, 30 have placed that definition in their state constitutions; it can only be wishful thinking for the advocates of marri...