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Originally Posted by CFrance
I don't agree with your point, Polar Bear, that same-sex unions and opposite-sex unions are different. A couple loves each other. They get married. They establish a household, adopt or bear children, plan for the future, invest, work, retire, etc. What is different?
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The possible need for birth control for heterosexual couples...the lack of pregnancy issues for male-male relationships...just a couple of differences chosen from many.
You even say yourself "adopt or bear children". The rearing of those children may be the same. But options for having those children are radically different. Are we talking about equal in all ways? Or only in selected ways that fit a certain argument?
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Originally Posted by CFrance
...And what does calling human beings all men or women have to do with anything at all? Gender equality has been fought for for decades. Men and women are supposed to have the same rights. I just don't understand what this has to do with same-sex marriage.
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Monkei said "Part of being treated equally, would be calling a marriage a "marriage". It would not be equal to call it anything else." Obviously being called the same thing is not a requirement for equality. Marriage/civil unions can have equality just as men/women can have equality. That was my only point.