"True" Marriage
Yvonne Stone Slonake, a retired schoolteacher of Roanoke, in her opinion piece at roanoke.com: Conservatives call these 'values'? wrote:
Gay marriage? I do not think that there can truly be a marriage between two people of the same sex, but I do believe that those people who are in a longtime committed relationship are entitled to the same civil rights as a heterosexual couple. I just do not understand this fear that some people have toward homosexuals. It's as irrational to me as fearing someone because they have blue eyes.
Which is nice and supportive, and I'm glad to have her as a fellow traveller down the road towards equality.
However, her statement does rather beg the question: in what way can gay marriage not be a "true" marriage?
Not to mention the startling fact that she has absolutely, positively no misunderstanding, ill feelings, nay, nothing approaching fear towards homosexuals, as demonstrated by her graciously wishing that homosexuals have all the same, absolutely identical civil rights as heterosexuals, just provided — please, please, please don't let them get — "married".