It is not equality to mandate that everybody is limited to only marrying members of the opposite gender. Heterosexuals are fundamentally made to be romantically and sexually attracted to the opposite gender. Homosexuals are fundamentally made to be romantically and sexually attracted to the same gender. Allowing one to follow their fundamental beings in a civil institution and prohibiting the other is NOT equal treatment of both.
While nudists see nudity as a natural state, people are not fundamentally nudists or non nudists. While we are all born naked, nudists are not born that way. Gay people are.
Gay people are not asking anyone to approve of same-sex marriage. People are free to detest homosexuality, consider same sex marriage as an institution of Satan himself. I am not asking a single one of you to change your opinion of gay marriage, you all are free to hold whatever morals and values you want on the subject. However, you do NOT have the right to impose those same values and morals on others. Same-sex marriage has absolutely no impact on any heterosexual in America. The amendments banning same-sex marriage have a very real impact on homosexuals.
It is discrimination to place differing values on people for the way they are born.
As a society prizing freedom, we give up the ability to censor that which we don't like, but which does not harm us.
