The battle over whether gay people should have a legal right to marry is not over rights, or freedom, or equality; it's about legitimacy. There is nothing homosexuals seek more than to be seen in the same light as heterosexuals. That, in the end is what this entire debate is about.
For many years, the gay lobby sought entry into the military, purportedly because they wanted the "right" to serve their country. At the time, I was in the Air Force and postulated the theory that gay people merely wanted access to the chapels that would be forced to join this man and this ... um, man ... in holy matrimony.
Everybody who has ever served in the military knows that no base facility can be denied to a serving member of the armed forces, and it was my argument then that marriage was the vehicle homosexuals sought toward legitimacy.
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