Marriage is not a fundamental right. It's a privilege and thus something that absolutely can be voted on.
Edit: Background, 2 of my friends are gay, and yes they know my position. 1 supports my position, the other opposes it. I don't think the traditional word "marriage" ought to be redefined as anything other than man + woman. And before you quote merriam or webster, I'm quite familiar with the colloquial modifications of the definition.
I support the rights of gays to have the same legal rights as married couples, but I don't support the NAME: Marriage for them. Let them choose another name. Just because I want to call an apple "Orange" doesn't mean we should change the definition of "orange" to include Apples too. It's got a different name, define it as such.
marriage IS a fundamental right. trying to argue otherwise is inexcusable.
less than 50 years ago, public referendums would have barred interracial marriages in this country. i bet people like you would have been leading the charge for them to have their own separate but equal institution, just so long as they did not call it marriage.
traditional marriage means anything but 1 man + 1 woman. using some of the various most 'traditional' definitions of marriage, traditional marriage means the man owns the woman as his property. kinda funny how it explicitly says right on the marriage application that i do not own my wife as property. i guess we don't have a traditional marriage.
this is a civil rights issue. if two people want to commit to each other for the rest of their lives, what the fuck is it to you? how does that adversely affect you in the least? why do you insist on creating a strata of second class citizens inferior to heterosexuals? what do you get out of doing that? why?
