MR.RIGHT SAID:
“They were offered a civil union, with the same benefits as married couples. They turned it Down. So what is this controversy really about?”
Again, what you advocate is segregation...
Again you fabricate a correlation that otherwise does not exist.
Racial Segregation is wrong, because it prejudges people based upon their outward appearance.
Segregating people based upon destructive, abnormal behavior is simply sound cultural policy, with thousands of years of precedence. Such removes counter-productive influences which influence others to make unsound decisions.
There's thousands of years of precedence on using race or outward appearance as the basis of prejudice. Yet you dismiss it as wrong. So its clearly not the antiquity of the justification that is your basis. But your agreement or disagreement with the justification.
Which is subjective personal opinion.
There's nothing inherently wrong with same sex unions. Its like eating a cheeseburger or doing work on Sunday.......an act that is 'wrong' because we think it is. And with marriage being nothing more than our invention, it is subject to the same standards. There's nothing inherent to it. Its a matter of what we decide it is.
And in 37 of 50 States, we've decided that it includes same sex unions.
Remember, there is no marriage in nature. There's fucking. Which isn't the same thing.