Reply #36: Pandering would be to allow anti-gay legislation in, getting out of this sticky mess is not

[Old School Liberal]

The gays and the anti-gays can bicker till kingdom come for all I care. Making marriage 'acceptable' is not within the purview of the government--getting gays the rights they should have is. The process can be expedited by tossing out a loaded term to let the savages go pick their fights elsewhere, and not disrupt the cogs of government. Interracial marriage was abolished in the first place for the fact that it had precedent and that the term marriage makes no racial distinctions--it was simply an illegal marriage. Homosexual unions, conversely, don't have precedent in the past, hence this whole mess. Can't we take this fight out of the halls of government so we can guarantee everyone's rights quickly and solve some more pressing problems?