What, still? You may not agree with our arguments, but surely you understand them? I mean, what part of “We don’t think that separate but equal would, in fact, be equal,” can’t you fathom? Yes, I know that you think it’s possible. But you haven’t really made much of a case for that position. You say that you’d support that sort of situation, but you’re just one guy, and God love ya, but you’re not exactly representative of the mainstream. You’re a conservative atheist who’s pro-choice, and pro-gay rights, but anti-SSM. That’s not exactly a gigantic voting block.
What it comes down to it that most people oppose gay marriage because they’re opposed to gay rights. And most people oppose gay rights because they’re opposed to homosexuality in general. If we want to change the way gays are treated in this country, we have to convince the majority of people who are opposed to homosexuality, to not oppose homosexuality. Amazingly enough, we’re actually doing a pretty good job of it. And for most people, when you convince them that gays deserve equal rights, they tend to come over whole hog. They don’t hold on to this vestigial prejudice over defending the meaning of the word “marriage.” Once they accept the idea that gays deserve equal rights, that’s pretty much the end of the story. With only a few exception like yourself, the people who talk about defending the institution of marriage from homosexuals are opposed to the entire concept of gay rights in any real sense of the term. You aren’t the person we need to convince in this debate, because there really aren’t that many people like you.