/My straight marriage bond is lessened by a gay couple marrying, because now there's a guy in that marriage who is considered the same as my wife is in my marriage./
Just how is your wife considered in your marriage?
/Everyone knows he is really a she,/
How and why? Because he's "feminine?" Because he fits the "gay people are twittering fashionistas" stereotype? Do you want him to get a sex-change operation, so that his marriage seems more "normal?" I thought you people were against transsexuals. Or is it just because you can't fathom the thought of two men being married to each other?
/but because of politics we're all going to pretend that he has a vagina and mounds on his chest and can reproduce, since that's what the word "woman" has always meant, not to mention the word "wife."/
The guy is not a wife; he is considered a husband, by virtue of his gender. For you to pretend that he's something that he's not, just to fit your narrow view of what a marriage is, is pure stupidity. Besides, what about all those wives who are barren? They're not "true women" now?
/If you don't get it, dude, the debasement of common sense, of the English language and of human reason happens when we all play "let's pretend" so that somebody can feel like he's something he isn't./
No one is telling you to pretend that the guy is a woman! That's your idiotic strategy of coping with the reality of gay marriage. You came up with that all by yourself. But yes, the debasement of common sense and human reason does happen when we make people pretend to be something they're not. Like when homosexuals have to pretend to be straight just to fit in.
/My marriage gets "lessened," as you put it, because we're all colluding by force and with no constitutional backing in adjusting reality to suit the whims of one bunch over another./
Then your marriage was never strong to begin with. My parents' marriage didn't automatically combust once Massachusetts legalized gay marriage, neither did my grandparents'. They're not infringing on your marriage or pretending that your wife is a man so that it makes sense in their heads. Stop blaming others for your stupidity.
/Politics should never be about whose tantrum will win today./
Exactly. What you fail to realize is that you are the one with the tantrum. Grow up.
