ferris209 said:
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I do not agree with gay marriage, I do not support it, and I would move against it. However, should the people of my state vote for it, or my legislature approve it. I am left with no other option but to continue to fight it and urge against it, as those are my religious beliefs. I do not hate those who disagree with me, I merely disagree. Honestly, I do not care what they do in that other state, that is their Constitutional right to do and decide has they please.

Additionally, I certainly do think there is a slippery slope. This idea is mocked and downplayed, but it is reality. If "gay marriage" is permitted, why restrict polygamy, why restrict marriage between a man and animal, why restrict marriage between the living and the dead, why restrict marrying an inanimate object, so on and so forth. These are debates that are currently happening, and will continue should there be no single simple definition that is understood and agreed upon. Such as marriage is a legal, lawful, and spiritual union of one man and one woman.

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So the easiest way to cut down any non-heterosexual-marriage discussions would be, if all additional rights, like visits in a hospital, or (I don't know if its as in USA as in Germany) the amount of taxes (in Germany marriaged couples have better tax rates then unmarriaged persons) and so on, also get deleted. So instead of giving different gender couples the rights of same gender couples, do it vice versa. This would kill all marriage discussions.