...except it's not the same. A civil union in New Zealand is not equivalent to marriage.
Yes legally it is the same. Culturally no it is not.
So rights are only for the popular?
They only get support if someone thinks they're popular.
Not that helpful if the only things that are "rights" are things that nobody would think of denying in the first place. The point of a "right" is to defend those things that are unpopular. It's that whole "tyranny of the majority" thing.
It is not an established right. So debate over its status is clearly on the agenda.
It is not clear to me that the case for nature versus nurture has yet been made. As a right it only has a basis as nature. It is very clear that to disagree with homosexuality is a taboo but that is not a reason to recognize it as right.
So on the assumption that it is nurtured (as nature would be). It it harder to say that black man is not a man. With homosexuality the issue is not whether you are human or not. Even if you are man or a woman. If it is nurture based than you cannot appeal to to this argument.
So sir by your own words I have a reason for my position thus I am not a bigot but the slur bigot is common if one does not agree with the homosexual position.
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