Well for a start Amos your opinion of me was quite wrong, in that you thought I wanted to deprive peopole of their rights.
No one can have the "right" to do anything, without regard to the effect that right has on others. I could give numerous examples but I'm sure you grasp my meaning.

"Civil marriage should be the same for any two persons seeking union blessed by the state."    Your opinion. The vast majority of people who care about the institution of marriage would say, the definition of MARRIAGE is the union of man and woman. To redefine MARRIAGE as Man/Man, Man/cow, Man/Man/neither of the above, affects the rights of those people.