What is really boils down to is that a group of people that are American citizens wanting the fundamental right that this country is supposed to afford all of it citizens. Just because you love someone of the same sex does not make you a second class citizen so you should be afforded the same rights as every other citizen of this country.
For the ones who oppose it on the aspect of religious views there are only 2 places in the bible that even mention 'homosexuality", but is also states that you should not pleasure yourself in the flesh, and that you should only have sex for procreation, so people who have sex for pleasure, and not for procreation should they also not be afforded the same rights as other American citizens because of that fact?
For those who think they are just sex crazed sickos, that they are rapist, or even pedos, the cold hard facts are that most of these crimes are committed by Heterosexual Males.
Further more when Heterosexuals say that they don't want to see 2 women or 2 men showing affection in Public what makes you think that homosexuals or even some other heterosexual want to see heterosexuals showing that affection in public. It just doesn't make sense to me who business it is who I have in my bed, who I love, who I spend the rest of my life with, as long as I am not shoving it in their face. It is a given right for me to have the freedom to do what I want to do. I work, I pay my Taxes, I will do what I want to do and if someone has a problem with it, its their Problem.
No American Citizen should be made to live as a second class Citizen, but for many many year women we made to live as second class to men, but that has changed, Homosexuals have for many years been made to live as second class, also they could be fired from jobs, kicked out of housing, not able to get what is rightfully theirs for way to long, its about time that they are treated as equals as the other citizens of this Great Nation of ours.
As for the marriage aspect that is only a small step in the process of getting all the rights that afforded to every American Citizen. If they want to get married I think they should be able to if they so choose. Just like heterosexual couples have the choice to get married,
Just my .02
You make it sound as if all rights are with held from the homosexual crowd. Other than marriage and the tax implecations that go along with marriage, what else has been witheld?