What The Hell Is Gay Marriage?

I have to ask: What the hell is Gay Marriage? I keep seeing this everywhere. People talking about wanting to get Gay Married or fighting to legalize Gay Marriage, screaming about equality for all. I really don't get this whole Gay Marriage thing, I think it's a sham. The idea of Gay Marriage simply doesn't make sense to me.

Now Marriage… Marriage I get. The idea of two people coming together, regardless of gender or sex, in an everlasting union… that I understand.

Over the past couple of years, people have been screaming and fighting for the right to marry, the right to live life on an equal playing field with the entirety of society. Somewhere along the way, the conversation was changed from talking about Marriage to talking about Gay Marriage, as if the two concepts were separate entities, as if Gay Marriage is somehow different from Marriage. But isn't the whole point of the fight to get rid of that wall? Isn't the whole argument that we should have equal rights, not separate but equal rights? So why on earth are we fighting so hard to gain Marriage with a caveat?!

I'm pretty sure I've mixed words at some point and referred to my hopeful future with another man as Gay Marriage. But even just reading that, I cringe. I cringe at the thought of walking up to a counter and quantifying my relationship as something other than real Marriage, as Gay Marriage. Trust me, it's not because I'm afraid of the G-A-Y word. It's because my relationship is the same as an opposite-sex couple's relationship and I demand nothing less than equal footing. I demand that my love be treated and respected and honored just as much as my mother and her husband's love. I demand that my existence not being something that is "tolerated," rather something that is accepted and even celebrated.

I demand that, from this day on, we stop talking about uneven, unequal and nonsensical Gay Marriage and start talking about our rights and freedoms regarding Marriage.