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Originally posted by Yorick:
quote: Originally posted by Illumina Drathiran'ar:
Lovers.
L-o-v-e-r-s.
Romantic love. There are different kinds of love, and I won't underestimate your intelligence by pretending you don't know. Gay people who live together but are just friends don't want to get married. Neither do platonic straight roomies. They want to be together because they have a deep love for each other and a desire to be together.
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So you've never loved someone you are not "with"? L-O-V-E.
I repeat, I think platonic love is being seriously undervalued here. Like the only valid love is when it's expressed sexually.
[/QUOTE]Nobody said that. We're not *talking* about platonic love. It's completely irrelevant to this discussion, yet it seems that you're bringing it in to compare apples and pears ::refuses to mention the red-yellow colored fruit... though fruit references do seem oddly appropriate here::
I'm saying that if two people love each other
in a romantic sense they deserve equal recognition, whether they be two men, two women, or two people of the opposite gender. Period. I'm not talking about platonic love (Even if two gay people loved each other in a platonic fashion. I'm not advocating marriage for them because, hey, they don't *want* to get married. Therein lies the difference.)