It's a civil right that was denied because a bunch of religious people who have always been the worst gay-bashers didn't want it. Now the christian right is acting like an oppressed victim, maybe if they had been a little less hateful and oppressive for the last two thousand years someone would give a shit.I basically agree. But why isn't a civil contract enough. Live together. Love together. Benefit together. But leave marriage intact. Perhaps your friends don't push the political agenda...but the political left does...and it has little to do with concern for gays.
It always cracks me up when someone like you calls anyone "hateful and oppressive." Maybe you should start improving the world with the one person you can actually control the behavior of
Actually, you're just uneducated. You do realize that your claim "Homo sapiens are heterosexual by nature" is actually impossible, right? If what you are saying were true, it would be impossible for homosexuality to exist. Even if we were to regard homosexuality as nothing more than a choice, the fact would still remain that the ability to receive sexual pleasure from activity with a member of the same gender proves that the individuals so engaged are, at the very least, inherently bisexual.