Who says all straight people are opposed, and who says all gay people are for it?

It's like straight people get married because they're expected to. There's a societal pressure for straight people to get married, and when they look back on their reasons for doing it, they realize it was a good/bad idea.

To say gays shouldn't get married is just pure bigotry, based on our sexuality alone, not whether or not we've picked the right person for us to spend the rest of our lives with. The same is still said of interracial marriages, and some igorant people still oppose this!

What about love, people?

I think most people don't really know why they got married, and others want it so bad for status reasons and the financial benefits that come with it. Same-sex marriages threaten straight marriages because it causes them to take a hard look at why they did it themselves, and questioning it makes their lives complicated. We don't want complicated lives, especially when others cause us to take away what we thought was simple.

I'd like to think my life is simple, that it's all black and white, but to examine it gives me a headache and brings depression. If those who oppose same-sex marriages feel like this, they'll find a target to take this out on: gay couples. They think they're solving the problem, when really they're venting and thrusting their fears and ignorance, exposing their prejudices and disguising it as moral values.

If same-sex marriages were the norm, if everybody had no strong feelings towards it like they have lately, the newspapers would be filled with hollywood gossip and other fluff, filled with lengthened horoscopes and articles about endangered species or something else.

In a hundred years from now, this'll all be such a minor thing, like women wanting the right to vote or to be seen as people. It'll be as minor as allowing women to wear pants, eh?

So many issues are so explosive now, then end up unimportant later. The world is progressing way too slow.