Thinking naively about the Left, which many people do because they wish to see the best in people, can lead to some wrong conclusions.
Most people assume that since the Left advocates for same sex marriage, they must be motivated by "equal rights" for gays. Of course, one can have no problem with gays and still oppose same sex marriage. I just have one question for advocates of same sex marriage. Their answer would reveal their motives.
Here is my question:
If same sex couples were granted the same monetary and political rights as married couples, but the definition of marriage would remain between one man and one woman, would that be enough for you?
In other words, if the only difference between a same sex couple and an opposite couple is that you define one as being married and the other as not being married, would that be sufficient? Why change the definition of marriage of a same sex couple has every right as a married couple?
I know that they wouldn't go for it, and the reason has nothing to do with rights and everything to do with destroying the social institution of marriage. Once you have stripped marriage of its essential meaning, it ceases to mean anything; it is a relic of a term and nothing more.
The reason the Left wants to redefine marriage has nothing to do with gay rights. It is about stripping the term "marriage" of all meaning, thereby nullifying the most important and longest social institution. Why would they want to destroy marriage?
It's not only marriage. The Left wants to destroy EVERY social institution. Religion, the military, education, you name it, the Left wants to tear it down.
This is because the Left wants to regress into primitivism and anarchy. The ironic thing is, that they might not even know it. It might be a subconscious desire to commit suicide.
'Get rid of every standard, every ideal and then everyone becomes equal. Noone is excluded.'