"The moral distinction between the bully and the victim
IS important. Those who support same-sex marriage are not
advocating taking anyone else's rights away. They aren't
advocating barring marriage for straight people, denying them
access to their spouses' hospital beds, denying them inheritance
rights and health insurance and custody rights, making their
kids' lives and their own less secure. I've never heard a gay
minister argue that straight people, just for being straight
and seeking love and marriage in a heterosexual context,
deserve to burn, forever and ever and ever, without rest or
respite. I've never known a straight kid to commit suicide
because he was ashamed to admit he was attracted to women -
I've never heard any gay minister or gay-positive church create
a climate that left straight kids simmering in shame and pain
like that." --
katrinb,
2008-12-18