/Marriage Is Already Open to Everyone./
Which is why gay activists are fighting for the right to get married, right?
/In the first place, no law in any state in the United States now or ever has forbidden homosexuals to marry./
Bull. The only states that currently allow same-sex marriages are Massachusetts and California. In more than twenty states, gay marriage and civil unions are prohibited by those states' constitutions.
/The law has never asked that a man prove his heterosexuality in order to marry a woman, or a woman hers in order to marry a man./
Maybe the law hasn't, but society sure has.
/Any homosexual man who can persuade a woman to take him as her husband can avail himself of all the rights of husbandhood under the law. And, in fact, many homosexual men have done precisely that, without any legal prejudice at all./
So, what? Of course, the law has allowed them to do that - the law doesn't know that they're homosexual! They're putting up a charade, living a lie.
/Ditto with lesbian women. Many have married men and borne children. And while a fair number of such marriages in recent years have ended in divorce, there are many that have not./
Not yet, anyway. Yes, they've married people of the opposite gender and borne children and in the process, have created great webs of lies to live by. They've denied who they are and in so doing, have lied to their families. What's so great about that?
/So it is a flat lie to say that homosexuals are deprived of any civil right pertaining to marriage./
No, it's the truth, you ignorant twit. They are deprived of the right because they're not allowed to marry the people that they would truly love. How would you like it if you felt pressured to marry a woman that you didn't love all for the sake of appearances?
/To get those civil rights, all homosexuals have to do is find someone of the opposite sex willing to join them in marriage./
ARGH! Can a successful author really be this dense? They don't WANT to marry someone of the opposite sex because they're not attracted to them! People tend to want to marry for love. Homosexuals don't want to marry people they don't love just because society demands that they should in order to look "normal."
/In order to claim that they are deprived, you have to change the meaning of "marriage" to include a relationship that it has never included before this generation, anywhere on earth./
So, I guess that African-American guys and girls weren't deprived when they weren't allowed to marry the white guys and girls that they loved. The concept of marriage has changed throughout the years and you should know better than to claim that it hasn't.
/Just because homosexual partners wish to be called "married" and wish to force everyone else around them to regard them as "married,"/
You are not helping your case by putting the word married in demeaning quotation marks, Card. Yes, they truly want to be married, sans quotation marks. They want the federal government and society to recognize their marriages as legal and valid, as would any heterosexual couple who wanted to get married.
/not mean that their Humpty-Dumpty-ish wish/
"Humpty-Dumpty-ish?" WTH?
/should be granted at the expense of the common language,/
OMG! The concept of homosexual marriage is so different, so alien from anything we've seen before that we'll have to come up with a new word for it! Dictionaries will have to be edited! The common dialect of today's youth will forever be altered! It'll be such an outlandish, nonsensical word, like "bezoboo" or "jowiva" that our language will be forced to incorporate! The English language has never absorbed new words, just like the concept of marriage has never changed!
/democratic process/
Because soon homosexuals will be demanding that they all receive governmental positions! They shall draft an amendment to the Constitution mandating that all heterosexuals marry homosexuals! They shall forbid all heterosexuals to vote!
/and the facts of human social organization./
And they shall revolt! The communists - er, gays shall rebel against the system! Women will no longer be housewives! Men will be forced to return to their biblical curse of toiling in the fields with Bronze Age technology! And everyone will be forced to look fabulous.
/However emotionally bonded a pair of homosexual lovers may feel themselves to be,/
Aha! So you do admit that homosexuals are attracted to each other and that they can love. So why the heck would you want to force them into marrying people that they don't love?
/what they are doing is not marriage./
Well, unless the federal and state government formally recognizes it as so, technically no. But disregarding all the legal aspects of it, yeah, I'd say that a long, loving, faithful committment to each other pretty much constitutes what a marriage is supposed to be.
/Nor does society benefit in any way from treating it as if it were./
Yeah, we can't have our kids become tolerant and accepting of those who are different, right, Card? We can't let people who do in fact help make up our society be happy. Just like society never benefited from having two people of different races marry.
Thank goodness I've never read any of this loser's books. What a moron.