banjoman wrote: However, I feel that to redfine the meaning of marriage to incorporate them is wrong.

To me, marriage has always been defined as the union of people who want to share their lives and enter into the legal rights and responsibilities of marriage. The whole current attitude that we are trying to redefine marriage is just an attempt to grab the word and make it mean something else, and make it belong to one group and not to another. From my point of view, you are the one who is stealing a word and changing its meaning to suit yourself. If you want to redefine marriage for yourself, feel free. But please stop trying to make your incomplete definition be the law of the land.

In the United States we are supposed to live according to a Constitution that guarantees us equal treatment under the law and doesn't mention marriage at all.

I actually don't care what we call it legally, as long as it gets called the same and is enforced the same for everyone.