And what's so important about calling it a marriage when they can have an identical legal relationship with a different name?
Calling it anything else would support the discrimination.
1. 'Separate but equal', isn't equal. Marriage is a union of people, and terms like '
gay marriage' are separating them from the majority, without legitimate reason.
2. This separation leads to discrimination via the
Saphir Whorf Hypothesis. It has enormous empirical evidence backing it, and it states that language shapes perception. Sounds hokey, but I'll explain it:
Synonymous terms are introduced into a language in order to differentiate between things that shouldn't be separated. (I think Jewish people don't have separate words for Jam and Jelly, but it can't reflect societal prejudice because the subject isn't a person or group)
In the instance that the word is introduced to separate a group of
people, it is usually done for discriminatory purposes or taboo views. Creating such a word gives the word a demeaning slant. The word 'nigger' was introduced to describe a group of people who already had social labels, but it became horribly condescending. Homosexuals were labeled as 'gay' or 'fags' to separate them further and dehumanize/alienate them. Applying more labels to the minority is not only unnecessary but damaging.
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