As you're well aware no doubt tomorrow NJ legislature will be voting on the topic of Marriage Equality.
Now we already have Civil Unions in NJ. They're part of a half-measure that stinks of the 'separate but equal' bull the Black civil rights movement fought against in the late 1800's and early 1900's. It affords inferior legal rights de facto and serves only to reinforce the image of a culturally inferior demographic that homosexuals have struggled with.
Striking gender specificity from the definition of Marriage is the least evil solution. We make a bunch of gay and lesbian people happy and all us straight folks get to stay Married too. As an added bonus we enhance the parsimony of Marriage as it pertains to law and don't have to tread all over the cultural conditioning which prescribes such weight to 'being Married.' Plus we come one step closer to stomping out Bigotry. It's a win for humanity and evolution.
And for the record, reducing all non-religious Marriages to Civil Unions or some other form of psuedo-marriage discriminates against non-religious folks like myself.
If the logical argument doesn't work for you try the following Reductio Ad Hitlerum: The Nazis hated gay people too.
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