Although this article and others like it discuss rights for pairs of homosexuals, the same arguments can be used to legalize polygamy, polyamory, marriages of convenience (“Marry” your friend for the tax deductions), etc.
The argument equating gay rights with the civil rights movement is specious. Homosexuality is about behavior, and laws discriminate on behavior all the time – in fact, that’s what they are for! The civil rights movement was about unalterable identity of people indistinguishable except for unimportant critera (skin color).
Some will argue that gayness is part of an unalterable identity. So is sociopathy and pedophelia, but we don’t legalize the associated behavior just because people with those characteristics cannot change.
Society has rightly decided to remove prohibitions on homosexuality. It has no obligation to confer equality under law on homosexual behavior.
