I'm actually laughing since your example of a "personal belief" is not actually a personal anything. It's about all the fact one can get in regards to what marriage is. Social construct defined by the society using it.
Even there, your personal opinion is out of the closet, and flamboyantly evident.
At least, in your previous post, if you had stopped with "marriage is a social construct," you would have just stated a fact. Maybe that's why I quoted more than just that factual statement. Did you not consider that?
Marriage is a social construct, not a scientifically established fact. It's a social construct that changes to meet the needs and wishes of society. It's changed many times in the past, and it will continue to change in the future, regardless of your opinion....Gay marriage is in and it's here to stay.
I won't bother with the "here to stay" part, though it seems like a pretty big contradiction to idea that marriage changes. But leaving that aside, your personal opinion is that marriage can change so that it excludes one of the sexes, and furthermore that the change we've seen in marriage recently is due to the changing "needs and wishes of society." Also, your definition seems to suggest that no other definition of marriage could be considered. Those are the personal opinions to which I referred. So...
Firstly, let's understand our own objectivity, or lack of it. Secondly, I find your wax nose view of marriage to be so out of control, that you have the nose off of the face, and not really being a nose anymore. Though I suppose you might also quibble about the definition of "nose." As for marriage changing along with the needs and wishes of society - well - that's obviously not been allowed to happen here, has it?
Furthermore, my libertarian nature isn't confused at all. My libertarian nature is screaming "why can't we just have the government stop licensing marriage!?!"
But nobody wants to the intelligent thing...
The intelligent thing would be to dismiss your absurd ideas out of hand, as the social justice warrior babble it has always been. It hurts, but it's true.
, so we are stuck with this really, really, really stupid fight
Which was started by your side of the argument.
If .gov is handing out marriage licenses, than they have to hand them out to everyone.
What happened to marriage just being something that meets the needs of society? You realize you're argument justifies antimiscegenation laws just as much as same-sex marriage, right? No, I don't think you do.
As far as people getting screwed. Ha-ha! Welcome to the problems inherent in having the government define marriage.
You mean, having the government undefine marriage, as it just did. Thanks, Liz and company. Thanks so much.