ALL citizens have the right to marry an opposite gendered person. That's equality. Just because we have a minority of people that buck that standard and might want to marry [insert object of desire here] doesn't mean that the standard should be changed. Just create a concession for those humans. Since that union itself is a compromise made necessary by a deviant sexual urge. I don't think marriage being based on the planetwide standard of male and female should be changed to include the planetwide aberrant same gender union.

I don't think though, that you would be happy marrying someone of the opposite gender, "just because" they are the opposite gender. You don't just marry someone because they are the opposite gender, there is more to marriage than that.

Who cares? Whatever is funny I say.

There's more to people than that. Between each individual, a person might be crazy, fat, ugly, the wrong race, skinny, a smoker, etc. But among just about every normal human/mammal/complex life form heterosexuality is the standard that they were evolved to partner for reproductive reasons and their physiology indicates this. While some individuals might ACT in homosexual manner, there are MANY aberrant sexual behaviors evident throughout the animal kingdom. But male and female pretty much is standard even down to plants. To pretend that homosexuality is just some kind of "variation" is just rationalistic bullshit.

No, that's a qualification requirement which discriminates against others.

It's the equivalent of our government saying that all religions will be banned in this country EXCEPT Christianity. But, that's okay, it's equal...because people of all religions would have the equal right to worship Jesus.

Edited to add: oh, yeah. And it's okay if you don't worship Jesus - you just don't get the same rights, benefits and responsibilities as those who do.

No it doesn't discriminate. It just set requirements for marriage. Just like the age and family controls. If you are a 14 year old wanting to get married in most states, tough tits.

Not it's not. Religion has nothing to do with gender or any other real reason to marry. Religion is a man made construct. People will be male and female even if we can't talk or worship. Heterosexuality is self evident in need, purpose and outcome, other sexual deviations are fundamentally sterile and biologically null in mostly the same ways. No reason to include them under "marriage" for the same reasons.

MARRIAGE is a man construct.

My analogy is valid.

(and, no, religion is not the same thing as marriage. That's why it's an analogy. If it were the same thing, it wouldn't be an analogy...it would be...the same thing.)

Which makes each individual marriage different.

No marriage is "normal", nor is any human "normal". Your continuous use of the word normal is moot.

Again, as we have covered too many times already. Reproduction IS NOT needed in a marriage. DID YOU HEAR THAT, REPRODUCTION IS A MOOT POINT WHEN ARGUING MARRIAGE.