BTW, this is exactly why the question of inclusiveness matters in global, large open source projects. The normal state of human relations is that most societie

BTW, this is exactly why the question of inclusiveness matters in global, large open source projects. The normal state of human relations is that most societies historically and today emphasize unchosen parent/child relationships more than chosen friend and spouse relationships. This is done for functional reasons -- it allows families instead of businesses and governments to take on the primary role of caring for the elderly, and it essentially forces marriage and having children to be the norm. It also makes dissolution of marriage much harder because intergenerational obligations get messy when children are expected to care for divorced retiree parents, particularly when they remarry. In other words, traditional marriage, as it existed a hundred years ago in the US, was a more or less permament union which assured that most folks would have children who would care for them in their old age, and both sexuality and reproduction were subservient to that goal. This is still the model in the rest of the world. Many countries have been moving away from that model to one where government and corporations bear the primary responsibility of providing for the elderly. In such a model, yes, same-sex marriage makes sense. But if you make same-sex marriage a human right, you essentially say that no society which treats children as the optimal source of support for retirees has a right to exist. That is orders of magnitudes more intolerant than contributing $1000 to Prop 8, because you are setting up large numbers of cultural and economic differences as human rights violations. Sure, neither same-sex marriage nor child protective services are possible in a society where children are expected to be the normal source of retirement support but that doesn't make the lack of either into human rights violations. You have to look at issues in context. So again, what does it mean to be inclusive in a global open source project? Does it mean excluding, as I think you want to, anyone who believes the optimal arrangement is for people to get married, have kids, have household businesses, and retire with their kids? Because if so, you have just alienated most cultures in the world, and that's "inclusive" only of wealthy, privileged white folks.