Reply #14: Other people's actions don't degrade my marriage

[elfling]

If two committed adults who happen to be the same sex wish to legally get married, and, I might add, voluntarily increase their tax burden, why should that damage my marriage in any way?

I am more offended by people who get drunk and have instant marriages in Vegas or elsewhere, or by the game show marriage contests, or by stupid rules that cause two-income married folk to pay more in taxes than two singles who live together.

I have no problem with religious marriages being limited in any particular way. It is a different kind of committment if one is married in a church vs. at the local government office. Why wouldn't someone's Catholic marriage be equally threatened by a Hindu or non-religious union?