Yep, sorry. We are going to talk about gay marriage again. I promise this won't last long. I just wanted to make one quick argument and see if I can get some responses.
Whether you like it or not most gay people were born gay. Most have no desire to reproduce with the opposite sex. Many are going to pair off into bonds with the same sex naturally. Some of these bonds will be very short and others will last a lifetime. Some will yield trouble, pain and hurt and others will be pure bliss. Most will probably be somewhere in the middle. Some gay people will choose to not get into serious relationships. None of that is any different at all, from a practical standpoint, as marriage.
It isn't as if there are gay people just waiting to commit to each other but can't because the law won't let them. Gay people are already in these relationships. Do you know what they call them? Marriages. They call their spouses Husband and Wife. They live in committed relationships just like many of you do. They are married.
Whether or not you give the same legal status to these bonds does not change the fact that they exist. It is only a question of whether or not you want to give the same legal status to them.
That being said, it seems to me that the only way you should deny these same legal rights is if it could be shown that doing so would be extremely harmful to society as a whole. Or at least harmful to someone. So. I have a simple question to ask those who are opposed to gay marriage.
What is the harm?
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