Because as long as there are separate institutions, there will be separate rules. Once marriage is for gays and straights, the inequality is gone.
Why are you so adamantly opposed based solely on what the union is called? It would seem to me that the name is the most trivial factor in a marriage.
But if you want to make all unions made without a religious segment Civil Unions, I am fine with that. But as long as Christian unions are called marriages, then unions performed by other faiths should be called marriages as well.
you keep confirming that the gay agenda is not about equality and tolerance and rights. Its about the govt forcing the majority to accept behavior that it considers deviant as normal.
If you get that from what I posted then you have quite an imagination.
No one is forcing acceptance of anything. I am not forced to accept Christianity, Judaism, Wicca, or Islam. The federal gov't recognizes them as religions. I see them as delusions.
You can still be bothered by gays, think their lifestyle is a sin, and not want to be gay. That is not a problem.
What
IS a problem is that you demand that
YOUR beliefs be the only ones validated by the gov't.
There are plenty of gay couples now. If they are joined in marriage, nothing that effects you is changed. But they gain the benefits bestowed by the federal gov't on consenting adult couples who wish to be joined in marriage.