Reply #17: I do hate that one especially.

[hunter]

How is it just that certain sorts of ordinary couples deserve these "special rights" of marriage but others don't?

But that's not really the point of this. To the right wing Mormons, Catholics, and the other authoritarian religious fanatics, gay couples are simply being used as a battering ram to break down the barriers between church and state. They deny gay couples their rights as a means of increasing their political power. The leaders of these religious institutions desire more than anything else the power to exert their control upon the lives of those outside their faiths. They want everyone, religious or not, to follow their religious rule.

Justice demands that we oppose them.