Yikes, people obviously feel strongly about this as they are downvoting comments clearly made in good faith. > Being anti-gay marriage directly means "I want g

Yikes, people obviously feel strongly about this as they are downvoting comments clearly made in good faith. > Being anti-gay marriage directly means "I want gay people to not have the following rights: x, y and z," and in that sense it is directly anti-gay. It is more direct, but not absolutely direct. People get religious over the word "marriage", which shouldn't be surprising because in a lot of ways it's primarily a religious concept. A lot of them actually don't mind if gay people have rights x, y, and z. But by framing the whole conversation around "marriage", it bypasses the question of rights for a lot of people. It jumps right to challenging their long-held, internalized view of what the word "marriage" means. And that might be an important thing to challenge! But for a lot of people it's a separate issue from the rights question.