2004 Presidential Election.

[Will]

Atrocities said:
Comparing the tradition of marrage to racisim is IMHO like comparing Jesus to Hitler.

Godwin's Law: As an Online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.

I don't think Instar was comparing marriage to racism, per se, but more to the parallel between largely ignorant masses imposing their will on an entire segment of the population based on shakey, dubious, and sometimes outright false "facts". Such as the widely held belief in previous centuries that whites were superior to other races. When really, it was probably largely a result of European cultures happening upon a sustained technological advance useful for conquering other cultures. I would say it's pretty much a fluke that say, the Chinese never considered gunpowder as a weapon, and then went on to conquer the world. Yet people, especially white ones, believed that because of their expansion, whites were superior. And some still do.

The solution of the State using only the term "civil union", and ditching the idea of marriage entirely as a State-recognized relationship would probably be the best idea, if it could be implemented. There's hundreds of years of both legislation and common law on multiple levels of government that will need to be modified for that to happen. But if it did, the biggest argument against gay marriage (the so-called religious connection) would vaporize. Unfortunately, I think there will still be a large portion of the population opposed to "gay civil unions". And a lot of people probably having a big hissy fit because government did what they "wanted" and didn't use the term marriage for homosexuals... but then went "too far" and eliminated it from the law books entirely.