People have an odd view of gay marriage, where people have some sort of right to marry who they choose. Marriage isn't a right, it's a privilege granted by soci

People have an odd view of gay marriage, where people have some sort of right to marry who they choose. Marriage isn't a right, it's a privilege granted by society to try to promote nuclear families. They get tax breaks, etc. at the expense of anyone who doesn't prefer that family structure. Ideally, these rights could be assigned piecemeal between any two individuals, with non-exclusion (i.e., polyamory is allowed.) Perhaps my spouse isn't the best at difficult decisions, and I'd prefer my stable son to be able to make difficult medical decisions, like whether I should be kept on life support. Perhaps I would like to file taxes jointly with my roommate for two years, if we shared household expenses. In no way is granting gay marriage some kind of rights equalization, but an expansion of an already unfair system, so I oppose it, just as if white people could own black people, but not vice versa, I would not be in favor of allowing black people to own white people, and would oppose any such measure, while being in favor of real equalization by abolishing the system of anybody owning anybody.