"You have the sames rights every other American has to marry. You are a woman and may marry one man."
Thankfully, there are entire countries, as well as some of the States themselves that have seen past this unnecessarily narrow view of marriage.
"To ask for more than that is DEMANDING special rights."
How delightfully self-contradictory. To ask is to ask. To demand is to demand. We ask not for so-called special rights - we ask for equal rights. Rights of two people to share families, names, and drama, just like any other married couple. If it is a demand to ask be treated like an ordinary human being, then I must raise my hand and demand.
"Because of your choice, you are telling the MAJORITY of Americans that WE are wrong and that we MUST give you extra rights, and that is to CHANGE the tradition and legal definition of marriage to suit YOUR WANTS."
Which choice would that be? Interesting use of a biologically-based circumstance, like the color of my hair, or the shape of my earlobes, or a much more apt and appropriate comparison - the color of my skin, or the shape of my eyes. Extra rights is your assertion? Interesting. Once again, we come back to the concept of equal rights, not special in any way, beyond the specialness of marriage as what can be a pivotal point in the lives of two people. Traditions are what they are. Traditionally, some kept slaves, and some were considered to not need to vote in our country, and our early laws reflected this. The fact is, we have grown since then, begun to see past the differences of the color of the skin, or the gender of the individual, or the group. Our understanding of each other as a species grows over time, or at least, it tries to.
"I will not feel sorry for you or anyone else who DEMANDS that I do so, just because of your sexual choices."
I'm glad you won't - for it appears that somewhere within your psychology there is the strange idea that one, people like me are somehow damaged or harmed by who we are. And to be perfectly honest, we don't need your pity. What we need, quite simply, is for you to see the truth - that we aren't different at all, really, beyond simple differences of biology. As for 'sexual choices?' Well, it sounds to me like I will need to choose whether or not to have dinner before sex, or a movie. Or even a walk along a beach, or a cuddle out under the stars, for those are indeed sexual choices. I am what I am, no browbeating or violence or denial or assertions of either my infirmity or my condemnation will change that in the slightest.
