Marriage isn't a civil right

My arguments show that marriage is not a civil right based upon the ideas that my opponent sought to challenge in her second post, my second post consisted of counterpoints to her post, not counterpoints to the idea that marriage is a civil right because to ignore her points in the second post would be suicidal, therefore yes, my points in the last post don't argue against the idea that marriage is a civil right, only my opponent's attempt to argue against my assertion against that point. Since my opponent elected not to make any countpoints to my own, nor chose to reinforce her argument, I can only assume she has run out of things to say to defend her point, therefore my counterpoints are what go unchallenged, not her initial argument. It's also interesting to note that she either didn't fully read my argument or didn't pay attention when she did, I did not state that we should judge who should be married at all, and I said that the judgements that do happen must be done NOT in the context of the mind but the context of the heart. Additionally, I wasn't referring to wexternised culture, I was referring to mankind as a whole, hence my use of examples based in numerous countries. To revise. Marriage is not a civil right because it symbolises that which we have built our society and species upon globally, it's application to couples is symbolic of the dedication to each other that we as a species have applied to leaders and deities, and thus to deny someone the right to marry is the same as saying they aren't human, and to have the authority to deny them that right equates to the authority to order them to stop existing, since nobody has the authority to do the latter, nobody has the authority to do the former regardless of whether or not they attempt to. Marriage is as much a mindset as it is a ceremony, it carries with it burdens of responsibility and dedication that both members of a couple gladly take, there is nothing else like it in our society or our species, a "right" is defined by what we can do without being opposed, and no matter how hard governments may try, they can never take something like marriage away, because marriage depends on love and love depends on nothing, nothing can stop love, no federal body or legislature or law or congress or voter can break it's embrace or destroy it's effect and to state otherwise is insulting at best. marriage is love, marriage is total love, sometimes it doesn't last and sometimes it is doomed to fail, but the love that the people feel as they marry isn't defined by their country or their laws. Therefore, to deny someone the right to marry is to deny someone the right to love, and to deny someone the right to love is to deny them an emotion, deny them one emotion and you may as well deny them all, as all our emotions are in balance. Happiness and sadness, love and hate, pity and guilt, to deny someone's emotions is to deny their very existence. Marriage is not a civil right because love is not a civil right because emotions are not a civil right because existence is not a civil right. They are simply extensions of who we are and what we are, and thus to deny someone marriage is to deny their existence and to deny them existence makes you implicitly guilty of attempted murder, after all, that which doesn't exist can't be alive.