Marriage

The current initiatives to legalize gay marriage in the US and around the capitalist world are misdirected from a purely humanitarian point of view. The right to gay marriage is actually a right to be the same as heterosexuals. True human rights include the right to be different. When single, childless and sexually active gay men and lesbian women are considered equal, then homosexul rights, indeed sexual rights, will have been actualized. For this to happen, single, childless, sexually active heterosexual men and women would have to be considered equal to married, parenting and monogamous or sexually inactive heterosexuals. It seems this reality is a long way off.