RKMBs Forums .::Important::. Politics and Current Events Gay-rights advocates to challenge Proposition 8

how many times in this same thread have people pointed out that marriage is a privilege, not a right? if driving were a right you wouldn't need a license for it, now would you? basically it sounds like people want the legal perks of marriage, like the example given of access to terminally-ill patients and the like. well there are already a lot of provisions in place that grant certain of those perks - in the case of the terminally ill, a living will can specify who gets to do what with what with full force of law. seems to me that the people clamoring for this are either after the perks - which can be gotten in other ways - or are simply interested in imposing themselves into yet another institution they'd have no interest in if there were no controversy (attention!) attached to it.