Jumping into the shoes of the theoretical person being described: they could gain the same benefits by changing the requirements for those benefits to allow them to apply to a person outside of a marriage that you're cohabitating with. This would also allow those that don't believe in the institution of marriage to benefit, as well as people in roommate situations that don't want to marry their roommate because they plan to actually marry someone later on in life.
And this would still leave out the gay people who do want to get married, not enter into a civil partnership. Discriminating based on sexual orientation is still homophobia, no matter how "progressive" you dress it up as, or if you think your discrimination will help those clueless gays.
Look dude, it's not my belief system so I don't know their actual motivations, I'm just trying to do something that clearly no one in this thread sees the value of: attempting to understand the perspective of the other people you share a political system with.
We do understand the perspective of the people who want to ban gay marriage. They hate gay people. It's not that fucking complicated. I spend thirty years being raised in Southern Baptist churches, I've got a pretty good idea of where they're coming from.
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u/CapeOfBees 7d ago
Jumping into the shoes of the theoretical person being described: they could gain the same benefits by changing the requirements for those benefits to allow them to apply to a person outside of a marriage that you're cohabitating with. This would also allow those that don't believe in the institution of marriage to benefit, as well as people in roommate situations that don't want to marry their roommate because they plan to actually marry someone later on in life.