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Originally Posted by Pleasurepays
that makes perfect sense. especially since marriage only exists in america.... and not in remote rain forests of brazil or the mountains of peru, villages in afghanistan or islands of the south pacific.
sadly, for your argument the concept and understanding of marriage is universal.
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The concept of marriage for love is a relatively recent idea. In most of those other places you mentioned, marriage is more of a business transaction. The "groom" gives the "bride"'s family a cow, goat or tract of land. Arranged marriages are still very real throughout the world even to where a young prepubescent girl is promised away for a future date in exchange for something. There is no concept in many of these places of marriage for love. The kids are commodities to help till the fields or to be promised out for an exchange.
A lot of places plural marriages still fly where monogamy isn't even a thought. That "understanding of marriage" you speak of has many many incarnations throughout the world and a lot of them are not in the vein of traditional nuclear families.
Gay couples can have the nuclear family structure you seem romantic about with 2 loving parents caring for their children; often as good, if not better than a dysfunctional male/female marriage.
If a couple looking to adopt can pass the tests and qualifications for a stable, loving environment, why not allow them to adopt.
It's not like allowing gay marriage will open up the floodgates to allow people to marry animals, enter into polygamous marriages, or some other extremely odd derivation to where the proponents from groups such as NOM bring to hyperbole can, should or would come to pass. Allowing more equal rights WILL happen.
As for your earlier example of morbidly obese people at movie theaters, they can sit in a damn wheelchair and take up one of the many handicapped spots already available in theaters. To your colorblindness example... um? They are already colorblind and can't see the extra colors regardless so I fail to see how anything would change for them or how any extra concessions could be made.