one day these people will get that other people's sex lives is noone else's business. and that the word marriage doesn't imbue one with any special powers. The reason marriage is an issue is a question of people having the right to equal benefits of "marriage" for the most part, right?

personally, when it comes to benefits- i wish we could determine individually who should get them anyway. My mom isn't married, for example, so why shouldn't she be allowed to let her adult children use her coverage if she wanted to. Or if she were gay, it could be her partner. Or if she wanted her sister, or her good friend to receive them- why not? What exactly is the purpose of insurance and why do we allow some people access to it and not others? Why should married spouses only be the ones who are allowed to make medical decisions for people? Why can't we dicate who we want to be allowed to make those kinds of decisions or see us in the hospital? And so forth?

Everything in this country is based on old fashioned traditional societal roles that many people don't either believe in or fit into anymore. and society needs to reflect that. It should be a topic that is being discussed more than it is on a broader level than "God doesn't want gays to marry".