Maybe you can help me.
I just don't seem to be able to get worked up about the idea of gay marriage. I've looked at it from all sorts of points of view, and frankly, I really don't see it as any great threat to Western civilization, or The Family, or life as we know it on the planet Earth.
"What's this," you say, "Old rabid right-wing Lictor coming out in defense of Gay marriage?" Well, not really. I'm more coming out in apathy. The problem, if I can be so bold, is that this is just a question of semantics. Deciding that homosexuals can have civil unions, and share property and all sorts of other administrative benefits, but that it can't be called a "Marriage" just strikes me as pointless. It's an argument about semantics and that, I submit, is a waste of time and energy.
I don't feel somehow threatened that the couple next door (who might be both men,) are now "married" instead of just "living together." It's not going to somehow cheapen the decade and a half that my wife and I have been married just because now gay people can be married too. Nor, I suspect, are heterosexual couples who had previously been considering marriage suddenly going to decide that they'd rather not bother.
Getting worked up over what you *call* the relationship between two individuals who love each other just smacks of people with too much time on their hands. Get over it.
Of course I know that many people hold the heartfelt belief that God disapproves mightily of homosexuality, and object on that basis. My own view, however, is that calling it something other than marriage, and then saying it's ok, won't appease the Big Guy if he's really down on the whole thing. It would be like deciding to call murder "Serious Tickling" if you could beat someone to death with a rubber chicken. The good Lord objects to what you're doing, not what you call it. In fact, he probably objects most of all to what you *think* you're doing, but that's a discussion for another day.
So, all in all, I can't find it in my heart to be offended by the prospect of two men getting married (nor two women either, of course.) There's plenty in the world to get worked up about, and much that could be done to make it a better place. Perhaps one of the best ways for the world to get better is to start celebrating when two people actually love each other rather than just want to blow each other up and a bus full of innocent passers-by at the same time.