Reply #55: See, the only people who would be willing [View All]

[Pithlet]

to give up the term "marriage" would be the ones who actually about equality and civil rights for everyone including the GLBT community. Your Solomon solution only works if everyone is working toward the same goal. But not everyone is. Don't you see that? I guarantee you that if we propose this to the general population, the forces who are fighting equality will spin it as "They want to destroy marriage! And change it to civil unions! See? We told you. The Gay Agenda seeks to destroy marriage!!!!!" Don't you see? It would never work. No one will go for it. People want to see the word Marriage on that certificate. Those of us who want to share rights would be willing to go through something that would so drastically overhaul how things are done for such a cause. Of course we would. But Solomon helped two people who had a common goal. We're not facing an opposition with a common goal. We're facing hate. What you propose would doom the movement for sure.

Besides, it only helps people who are religious. What about those of us who want to be married who aren't religious? I like being married. I don't want to be civil unioned. What about us? We get to be sent to the back of the civil unioned bus? Or any of the GLBT community who aren't religious? That's nice. Easy for your Christian self to propose this, isn't it? You'll get to be married, if you aren't already. Nice for you.

I don't like your solution simply because it gives something to the religious that never belonged to them in the first place. Religion doesn't own marriage. The bigots are using religion as a tool for hate. They're claiming marriage is religious and that's why gays shouldn't be allowed to marry. They're wrong. So why give them marriage to appease them? I say screw them. We fight them and we win.