Posted: Apr 09, 2012 5:42 pm
UndercoverElephant wrote:What extra do they gain by doing so?
I'm not gay, so I can only speculate.
But I would imagine it is because they want the love they feel to be recognised as equally important as the love heteros feel. Irrespective of any legal or financial advantages marriages (or civil partnerships) imbue they are fundamentally about the love of one person for another.
Your argument seems to be pinned on two beliefs: that marriage is fundamentally about procreation and that it is historically and culturally about a male and female. If the first was true then why do we allow infertile couples to marry? And the second is true only if you create cut of points into history that you don't wish to look beyond. Marriage used to be about the coupling of one man and several women. It use to be about a male having ownership of a female. It use to be about a lot of thing we today don't agree with.
But today we have moved on. We believe that marriage is about love. And it is my opinion that the love between two men or two women is just as important as the love between a man and a woman. And if they are equal then they deserve the same name.