[Khadra]

Originally Posted by Concrete Girl

But what's the difference? Marriage is marriage. Gays have the right to fight for their rights to get married. But just the same, any person who is against gay marriage also has the right to fight in order to make gay marriage illegal. Everyone has rights to what they believe, no matter who deems their beliefs as unfair.

The difference is that the religious people are infringing their beliefs on the rest of society. Gay people are not infringing their beliefs on anyone. Legalizing gay marriage has NO impact on the church. Keeping it illegal hurts the gay people though.

The government does not represent any religion and cannot discriminate based on religious values. Prohibiting same-sex couples the same rights as straight couples IS discrimination. So, unless you're okay with being paid less than men for doing the same job, you can't think giving straight people more rights than gay people is right.