Reply #69: I Am a Socialist Queer...Hardly Conservative

[David Zephyr]

but I do very much appreciate your point and the other counterpoints that many have made to my comments in the origen of this thread. This has been very enlightening and most every comment made here has some validity.

I certainly don't expect to change the tidal dynamics of this debate with my own puny, personal thoughts, but for what it is worth, I really feel that as long as ALL legal rights and priviledges are equal between heterosexual and homosexual partners, then the battle for equal rights in this particular arena is won.

Most of all, I think that it is important that it be honestly stated that a great percentage of very proud gay and lesbian couples have no desire whatsoever to encroach upon a word that has historically and culturally had great meaning for heterosexuals. If we never had the word, then why the clamor for the word? I just personally feel that it is silly, but respect those who feel otherwise.