Well, if you can discriminate against homosexuals by denying them the right to marry because of their sexual orientation, what else can you do? Make them use separate public bathrooms? Giving them the right to marry other homosexuals isn't even a satisfactory solution- it's just separate but equal. If homosexual marriages are legalized, then we must allow heterosexuals to marry members of the same sex if they wish and homosexuals to marry members of the opposite sex if they wish.
Right now, and indeed for the whole course of history, gay people have enjoyed one major advantage no other minority or oppressed group has had. They are legally indistinguishable from the majority. You cannot have something like separate bathrooms for black and white people with gay and straight people because you cannot distinguish a gay person from a straight person, either by looking at them or by some legal distinction. Right now there is none.
There probably isn't much reason to fear this kind of thing in the future, but hey, I can envision it happening. I've noticed that some grad school applications already ask for your sexual orientation, though it's still an optional question. If it's ever a mandatory question, that will be bad.
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I'm not arguing for or against same-sex marriage being legal. I'm just arguing that the absolute right of gay people to marry people of the opposite sex must not be infringed, and that they should continue to be given the same rights as straight people. And they should be able to enforce those rights by passing themselves off as straight people if they wish, and in any case should not have their sexuality questioned. Don't ask, tell if you like.
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