Keeping same sex couples from marrying is not discrimination.
Yes it is, just as keeping black people from being free is discrimination.
Keeping same sex couples from marrying is keeping them from discriminating against what is normal.
That is one of the most bullshit statements I have heard this year.
Homosexuals getting married is not a disriminatory act. They do it for the same reasons straight people do it: to be close to their significant other, to be considerd family in the legal sense when their significant other is hospitalised, etc.
Getting married is not discriminating against 'normality', no matter what you happen to think is normal and not.
BTW: all serious research that has been done on homosexuality has revealed that it's part of the human condition, and therefore 'normal'. You disagreeing with that doesn't change it.
Anymore than I feel discriminated against because I cannot marry my sister.
There are good reasons why you shouldn't marry your sister that go rather beyond 'incest is gross': children from incestuous relationships tend to be far weaker and more prone to genetic defects than those from non-incestuous relationships. There are probably other reasons why you getting it on with your immediate family is a very bad idea, but I haven't done the research.
Discrimination based on good judgment is a protection for the stability of society and the upholding of unalterable morals.
Morals aren't unalterable. For instance, just a century ago it was OK to keep slaves. Now it's considered monstrously inhuman to do so.
Also, gay marriage doesn't destabalise a society. The Netherlands was the first country to legalise same-sex marriage in 2001 (according to wikipedia), and they're still going strong.
If you want something that destabalises a society, try the sub-prime loans that have cumulated in the current econopocalypse. Thanks a lot, America.
A government allowing them to marry would be endorsing the unnatural.
Queue the youtube video with the wild animals having gay sex. Homosexuality happens in nature, therefore it's natural.
Equal protection under the law was never meant to protect the enjoyment of what is immoral or harmful.
Gay sex isn't any more immoral or harmful than straight sex.
Equal protection regarding marriage means that anyone, who is a single, adult, can marry another single adult person of the opposite sex as long as it is not their relative.
Only because your country is so fucking stubborn that it refuses to join the 21st century with all the civilised countries.
Besides, sexual orientation is only a behavior and not a fixed condition like race.
All research indicates that it is. You can try to warp it somewhat, like certain frightening camps in the US run by fundie churches try to do, but that is considered extremely harmful to the psyches of the victims of such facilities.
No one would agree that you can change your race, because that is something that is strictly defined by your genes.
You can't alter your genes, and therefore, you can't make yourself any other race than the one you are born in.
Whereas there are tens of thousands who have overcome their same sex lifestyle to live out their lives the way God created them to be heterosexuals.
Like in those camps I mentioned earlier?
To give an immoral behavior a protected status or special rights makes society a proponent of that behavior, thus harming society as a whole.
Homosexuality isn't immoral, no matter how often you repeat that lie, it doesn't make it so. Gay sex doesn't hamr anyone. Gay marriage doesn't harm anyone. Being gay in the closet doesn't harm anyone. Coming out as gay doesn't hamr anyone. Homosexuality doesn't harm anyone. It's therefore not immoral. I don't care what you/your god/your holy book/your beliefs say.
