"Gary L. Drescher" wrote in message
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"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in message
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Surely you understand that since only a very small minority will ever
consider same-sex unions to be "marriage" in any sense "marriage" will
continue to be defined as it has been for centuries.

By the way, according to a recent poll (
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/...in565918.shtml ),
40% of the US population favors gay marriage rights; among
18-to-29-year-olds, 61% are in favor. So unless those percentages are what
you consider "a very small minority", the fact is that we have *already*
reached a point that you just predicted we would *never* reach.