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Can We Have Our Wedding Cake and Eat it Too?

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<		Critics of this position might counterargue and say that gay people should have the liberty to marry the person they love, and those other elements of the queer community can be preserved. Marriage after all (aside from religion) is a contract, and those other elements are sociological in nature. In other words, they might claim we can have our cake and eat it too. But I don’t think this is true. At the tip of the tongue when we talk about gay marriage is the desire to be just like a heterosexual couple. When gay people say they want marriage, they want the lifestyle and social capital that comes along with it.
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>		Critics of this position might counterargue and say that gay people should have the liberty to marry the person they love, and those other elements of the queer community can be preserved. In other words, they might claim we can have our cake and eat it too. But I don’t think this is true. At the tip of the tongue when we talk about gay marriage is the desire to be just like a heterosexual couple. When gay people say they want marriage, they want the lifestyle and social capital that comes along with it.
 While wanting to legally bind oneself to a monogamous partner “till death to you part,” may be strangely desired by the more masochistic and lemming of individuals, I don’t know what is to be gained by cliff jumping into marriage. For people that would like to live like heterosexuals in their traditional definition of a relationship, they can certainly do that without the marriage certificate. Sure they might want the benefits, but at what costs do those legal privileges come? If gay marriage was to be the central cause of the gay agenda, that would mean the queer-top priority would be the desire to be apart of a tradition that has rejected non-heterosexual definitions of sexuality and relationships.

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