All Things Being Equally Unequal
Cathy Young is right about how wrong "marriage privileging" (granting of special rights to people who are traditionally married) is -- and on top of that, denying marriage to non-heterosexuals who want those now-granted marital rights.
Personally, I don't believe in committing to someone for life. I actually find it anti-life -- because it promotes staying together after the relationship is dead. Well, there is divorce, you say. Yes, but I don't make promises I'm not reasonably sure I can keep. And I can't say, if I love you today, that I will love you 15 years from now. People change. And when they do, if they change in such a way that their relationship is no longer viable, they should amicably split up. Why is it considered tragic when relationships end? Things end, things die. It's merely a fact of life -- one we should begin to accept. There's more respect for life in living truthfully -- and splitting up -- than there is in two people living in misery together and pretending it's bliss.