Because no gender is being told they can't marry.
They are being told which gender they cannot marry. That is gender discrimination.
No different than being told what race you have to marry.
Your argument is as stupid as when interracial marriages were illegal and some bigoted idiot (redundant phrase) like you would say, "No race is being told they can't marry."
a union of two men or two women is NOT a marriage.
Yes, it is. Sorry about that!
They should be able to legally commit to each other and have that union recognized, but it is NOT a marriage.
Your stupid little semantics game is transparent.
If you folks down at Westboro Baptist don't want to call a gay marriage a marriage, that's your right. But you don't get to force them not to call their marriage a marriage.
As for having their union recognized, that won't be true until they receive the exact same state and federal government cash and prizes we heteros get for being married.
That's all they want. You can stomp your feet and blow a lot of retard smoke about the word "marriage", but until you get it through your thick skull that that is all they want then you will continue to sound like a retard.
Now focus: Government cash and prizes. They want the same. "Equal protection of the laws."
Get that through your head. It isn't about a
word, idiot. It is about tangible things. Real world shit that actually matters. Legal stuff.