Imagine with me if you will a world and a place where the people who dated, married, bought houses together, raised children, acted out your favorite soap operas, were your heroes and heroines of the greatest love story and ... they were of the same gender. But then one day a marginal group of people decided to rise up against the establishment to proclaim that there was love amongst their group as well.

The same-sexed couple loving people would not hear of it! How could they be upstaged by these men and women who claimed to love one another? The marginal group didn't have the history together like the same-sex couples nor did they have the power or the status. So the gay people chose only to "allow" love to remain between a man and a man and, a woman and a woman ... like it has always been.

It takes a stretch of the imagination to see love as only between a woman and a woman or a man and a man doesn't it? Particularly because you're not conditioned with the images of same-sex couples like you are with the other nor, were you raised with the understanding that same-sex attraction is a normal expression of some people's sexuality.

As a response to ignorance and fear, you live in a society that demands you to restrict romantic love to only opposite genders and when people of the same gender fall in love with one another and want to celebrate that experience, they're vilified, demonized, and degraded.

The response ... that I'm not raised to believe in your lifestyle, is a lame excuse at not having an opinion of your own or one that you're willing to take responsibility for. You live in a world with billions of individual people with different preferences, some of which are healthy and others not so. Same-sex love or marriage is not one of the preferences you should be locking people up in jail over or ostracizing members of your community over.

However, it's a huge distraction from the real problems at hand when you have unhappy, married, straight, couples who are, themselves, doing everything possible to destroy their own institution of marriage through infidelity, abuse, and neglect.