Don't they know they are hurting the institution of marriage?

[iwillalwayswonderwhy]

I thought marriage was about love and partnership and spending a life together by choice. It should not be an elitist club only granted to those who fit a profile of uniformity.

This is hurting marriage. It's making me ashamed to be married.

It's so stupidly easy. If you are a man and think marriage is between a man and a woman, then by all means, marry a woman. If you are a woman and think marriage is between a man and a woman, then by all means, marry a man. But what gives anyone the right to tell someone else who they should or should not marry?

I just don't get it. Is it some kind of punishment to deny folks the right to marry?

[MrScorpio]

1. More people joining is better than fewer

[az chela]

2. marriage is a contract.NO WHERE does it say it has to be

between a man and a woman.Any contract can be between 2 adults.It doesnt matter what their sex is

[niyad]

3. well, apart from the fact that marriage as we currently see it is a patriarchal institution for

which I have never seen an actual need, my feeling is that if people want their love and caring publicly recognized, that is fine with me.

I repeatedly ask the "marriage is between a man and a woman" crowd how anyone else's marriage affects theirs--unless, of course, they are having affairs. dead silence.