New Zealand Votes for Equality.

I can't speak for anyone but myself, but as a gay man, I'm only interested in the rights, and I think gays as a whole have been done a great disservice by a vocal few making the argument about marriage. It sounds so petty sometimes, the left and the right arguing about it, like two five year olds who don't want to share the same toy. Personally, I'm going to commit to whoever I'm going to commit to, regardless of whatever you want to call it. Does that make me inferior and perpetuate a stereotype? Yeah, maybe. But you know what? People are going to think what they're going to think. If anything, those who already looked down on gays would look down on them more for having forced the issue and won. The argument I'd rather see going on right now is the rights issue- religious fundamentalists would have an infinitely more difficult time arguing against that. The whole people marrying multiple people, dogs, kids, argument goes flying out the window when you just make it about things like who can visit whom in a hospital and whether person A can inherit from person B. I don't need someone else's validation of calling my relationship a marriage to make it meaningful and when I eventually raise kids with that man, we're going to be raising them so that they don't need other people's validation for their love either.

PS: Don't get me wrong, I'm happy for the folks in New Zealand. I think things could be better as a whole.