Originally Posted by AlicornsPrayer

OD, you hit the nail on the head with that observation...

Englishflower was in so many marriages, simply cause she was trying to live by the 'norms' society said she had to be in.

And that's the heart of the situation for our sisters and brothers in the GLBT communities. They're tired of living a life of fraud, 'just to fit in' with what others in society deem 'normal'.

They want the rights to live their lives to the fullest, just like the rest of us take for granted. And the only way they can do that, is to have the same exact rights to marry the person THEY CHOOSE TO MARRY, versus having the only choices of:

1. Marrying someone they won't be happy with (or won't be happy with them), thus resulting in unhappy marriages and divorces...

2. To have a relationship they have to hide/feel ashamed of with a person they do love because someone in society says their relationship is 'unnatural/sinful' or...

3. Having to live alone because as above, someone in society says their relationship is 'unnatural/sinful'.