Is that why? Really? I'd have thought it was because it was none of
your business.
> but sex ain't marriage.
This is true. Marriage is a state-sanctioned contract that confers
certain benefits and demands certain responsibilities. So let's talk
about that contract.
> And all sex isn't all equal, point in case is Pedophilia or
> necrophilia.... They also aren't "equal" to heterosexual marriage.
> You can't marry a child or a dead person.....
Some are students of the obvious; you are a master.
> You also can't marry a person that is the same *gender* as you.
Technically you can't marry a person who's the same sex as you.
> Well not in the name of religions
The only thing under consideration is civil marriage, i.e., who gets a
marriage license from the state, not a blessing from a chruch.
> or most States.
39.
> If you want to accept gays as different than pedophilia and necrophilia
> then do so,
Well, of course, I do, assuming you mean accept gay sex as different.
Just like straight sex acts, gay sex acts generally take place between
consenting adults, which makes them different from sex acts with
children or corpses.
> but don't call it the same as heterosexual Marriage.
What's "it"? I thought we agreed that sex ain't marriage. Why are you
talking about sex instead of contracts?
> Why
> shouldn't *Married Heterosexuals* be as offended by you saying you are
> the same as them, as you are when they call pedophilia and necrophilia
> the same as homosexual behavior?
First of all, since I'm a married heterosexual, I *am* the same as
*Married Heterosexuals*, at least as far as the law is concerned.
Secondly, why would any married heterosexual be offended by married
homosexuals? Remember this ain't about sex. It's about having a
certain contractual status as outlined by state law. How is my marriage
affected by the marriages of others?
Even if married partners never have sex at all, the partners, straight
or gay, are adults who consent to enter into a certain state-sanctioned,
contractual relationship. Pedophiles and necrophiles can't do that.
> If Homosexuals aren't the same pedophiles and necrophiliac why then is
> homosexual behavior the same as Married Heterosexual behavior? Can you
> explain that to me?
I hate to break this to you, but many married heterosexuals engage in
the same sex acts as homosexuals. But that's really irrelevant.
Firstly, most gay sex, like most straight sex is between consenting
adults. That's different from all pedophiles and necrophiles.
Secondly, the sex lives of married people isn't an issue. As you say,
marriage ain't sex, and there's no mention of sex in marriage statutes.
>
> Because it isn't alike any more than homosexuals are like pedophiles and
> necrophiliacs is it?
Did you fail the analogies part of the SATs? Most sexually active
homosexuals are just like most sexually active heterosexuals: they have
sex with consenting adult partners. This is different from all
pedophiles and necrophiles, who don't.
But why are you still talking about sex? Didn't we agree that sex ain't
marriage? You should be talking about marriage, i.e, the civil contract
outlined by state statutes, none which even mention sex acts.
> If gays can decide others aren't like them don't heteros have the SAME
> RIGHT to decide who is like heteros?
Of course. Everyone, gay and straight, is free to decide how to
partition the population into same-as-me, different-from-me. But state
law must be applied equally per the 14th Amendment.
11 states and DC now allow marriage equality. How has that affected
anyone who was married before?