Okay. I'm sorry for my flight of imagination; it was very late, it's been an exciting week, and clarity is not my strong point under those conditions.
But thinking about civil rights, gay rights, discrimination, and exactly what is at stake here, the logic did start to unravel.
1) If the issue is marriage for the sake of marriage, there are religious leaders who will perform gay marriages - not enough, but times are changing.
2) If the issue is recognition of marriage by the government, this appears to be an issue because government rewards marriage with certain benefits.
3) It is unfair for the government to reward relationships when participation in those relationships is dependent primarily upon a religious issue.
4) It is unfair for the government to give preference, in basic issues of kinship, inheritance, and family on the basis of religious definitions rather than on the basis of the rights of individuals.
And that, I think, is more than enough from me.
