Originally posted by sarthaz
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I don't like discrimination against anyone. But I've found the groups that say they want equality really want more. Not the people, the individuals, but the group. The group leadership is only concerned about the group, not even the individuals that allegedly compose it, forget about anyone outside that group.
And I perceive this to not to have the right to marry, but the power to force everyone else to acknowlege it as a "marriage", even those, like me, who would not. Two or any multiple of homosexual people can marry themselves off to one another as much as they want, I would not interfere, I didn't call the local chapter of gay people to ask if I could get married, they don't need my approval either. But I don't acknowlege homosexuals living together as a marriage. I don't care if they introduce themselves as partners or spouses or whatever term they would prefer use. The most common one I hear is partners, actually, but I treat everyone with respect as a person. I don't wait to see what kind of person this is before I treat them as I feel I should. So I'm not against the rights of homosexuals but I am not for them either, I don't think they need their own special or specific rights. And I don't feel like it's equality for them to get special or specific rights. That's the other reason I put equality in quotes. Those equal rights should apply to everyone or they are not equal.
This is very complicated, there's much more to this than what I've said, but I don't think this is about equality at all. It boils down to what it's always been about, power. The power to force opinions on everyone else because they can. I hope I wasn't offensive, I do not want to offend. I merely have my own opinions and beliefs and I feel as though my rights to them are being infringed or possible eliminated. People that have refused to acknowlege homosexual couples as married have already been ostricised and protested against. No one should be made to feel that way.
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