I happen to agree

[legalmoose]

From Rex Wockner's "Quote Unquote #197" - reprinted without permission

"Straight culture encourages its members to find all their emotional needs (lover, best friend, confidante,
roommate, vacation partner, parent of their children) in one person -- with predictable strains and horrible
endings. Gays and lesbians tend to divvy out the emotional ties between different people -- lover(s),
roomies, fuck buddies, best friends, 'sister(s)', and ex-lovers who become key members of our support
network. Valuing honesty and honouring lust, we almost always open up our relationships to sex with other people after a few years. A recent study of Vancouver gay men found that only eight percent were in long-term relationships. A similar study of straights would, no doubt, have found some 80 percent or more were in long-term relationships. If we win access to this marriage snake-pit, it will begin the erosion of the culture that we've worked three decades to build. We've spent so long building our culture, and fighting for the freedom to live our lives as we really are, that we sometimes forget to pause to savour what we've made. And, though it has its flaws as do all cultures, it really is quite beautiful."

--Gareth Kirkby, editor of Vancouver, Canada's Xtra
West, April 12.

Comments

[mrplutonium.livejournal.com]

Yeah, marriage as it stands now is pretty icky. If we could keep what was described above and find some way to extend all that important stuff like hospital visitation rights, I think everyone would be happy.

Although the visitation rights could probably be taken care of with something akin to a living will...

[legalmoose]

There are contract means around several of the restrictions the unmarried face, but not all. :-( A good argument -against- gay marriage in its current form is Michael Warner's "The Trouble with Normal."