Gay People Should Have Equal Rights As Straight People Regarding Marriage and Adoption

I was referring to all of them in regards to your first question. It is a marriage, By definition. We"ve already both agreed that the definition of marriage has changed many times, I would argue that arranged marriages have been around longer than traditional marriages but that doesn"t make it more correct. You agreed that some of the changes made regarding marriages are good changes, It"s not really up to you to decide where those changes should stop, That"s merely your opinion. I respect your opinion and you still have the rights to excericise "traditional" marriage and that"s completely fine. No theyre not corn chips, They"re chips. There"s potato chips, Corn chips, Veggie chips, Different flavors of chips, They"re all different to suit the needs of different people but nonetheless they"re chips. I still think the food analogy doesn"t really compare to talking about marriage. I wasn"t bringing up another argument on interracial marriage, I was just responding to what you said in the last response. I only think it"s unfair to compare consensual marriages to marriages with animals and organisms who can"t consent. It would be near impossible for people to marry animals and plants because they will never be able to consent. Marriage is a contractual agreement, Animals and plants cannot sign off on this agreement. The law (in the US) was that gay people couldn"t get married, When it was taken to the Supreme Court, They came to almost a unanimous decision that it was unconstitutional to not include gay people in the rights to marry. There was no new law put in place, The old law just became void because it was incorrect. Here in the US we are having a lot of debates on gender theory as well, But that is completely irrelevant for the topic of gay marriage. I have mixed views on gender theory, I understand transgender people and what they are fighting for, I"m a little confused on all the other genders and I don"t agree with mandatory courses on the subject to children- I think this should be up to the parents to decide lol we can have a whole new debate on this subject lol but it"s not related to gay marriage. I never said everyone should be the same to be treated equal. I said there"s no such thing as " separate but equal", Not "different but equal". Separate means separating things that are different and calling them equal even though you are keeping them separate. Separate but equal is like saying women& men or blacks & whites can"t go to the same schools or get the same jobs etc. , We have to keep them separate but "equal". In the US we had these separate but equal laws a while ago, And while they were supposedly "equal" they really weren"t. If two things are equal, They should have the same opportunities & not mandatory to be kept separate. As far as the olympics vs the special olympics, Someone with disabilities could still potentially be in the regular olympics if their disability didn"t hold them back from being able to compete with the best athletes in the world. For example, I could never be in the olympics because I"m not fractionally as good as an olympic athlete. I"m still equal as a person, I"m just not equal as an athlete, I would never meet the qualifications. The special olympics were created for people who couldn"t compete with an olympic athlete but are still good enough to compete in a competition better suited for them. Likewise, I can still join a local sports team, I just wouldn"t meet the qualifications to be on a professional sports team. I think homosexuals should just have regular marriage. It makes no sense to create a new union that is supposedly exactly the same, Because that leaves loopholes for it not to actually be the same or its creating something exactly the same which would make no sense to change the name and create something new for it, Simply because some people are held up on a definition that has changed in a bunch of ways since it was created. I think it"s just for non-Americans to celebrate July 4th independence day. Here in the US we celebrate cinco de mayo and St Patrick"s day as our own. Why can"t non-Australians celebrate Australia day? I would love to celebrate that day too, But there are honestly too many countries to celebrate but I think everyone should celebrate as they wish lol. I think handicapped people should compete in the olympics if they meet the qualifications and can fairly compete with them, As stated above. I use the men"s bathroom half the time I go out because there"s always a long a** line for the girls bathroom. I was in Europe for a month recently and many of their bathrooms are completely unisex, I had zero issues with it. I"m not degrading and devaluing diversity. I love diversity in almost every sense. That"s why I believe gay people rightfully should have access to marriage just the same as anyone else, Different but equal <3