"Freedom"

No matter who you are or what you feel about homosexuality - if you are gay, lesbian, trans gendered, bisexual, bi-curious, metro sexual, heterosexual, celibate, hermaphrodite, a satyr, a succubus, a fucking human being - and especially if you are a fucking human being, and really want to live in a country where all people are equal - not separate, nor "civil-unionized", not lied to about your rights - realize that same sex marriage will not harm you. It will not make gay people more "gay". It will not make you gay unless you already are. It will not make your children gay unless they already are. It will not change your life in the least, unless you are gay and want to marry your partner. Then it will transform your life, because it will change your status from second-class to first-, where we should be.
If we are not absolutely insistent, unflinching, strident about lifting the ban on same-sex marriage, then we might as well forfeit the Constitution, cross out all the Amendments, knock down the Statue of Liberty, reverse Roe v. Wade, pretend Stonewall never happened, reinstate Prohibition, deny women the right to vote, derail the Underground Railroad, bring back slavery, retrieve all the tea bags from Boston Harbor (actually let them steep - gay marriage is still legal in Massachusetts, for now), give Patrick Henry death instead of life (he's fucking dead now, anyway), knock Paul Ravere off his horse, realize that George Washington lied, albeit posthumously, get back on the Mayflower and go back to England. The only problem would be, trying to bring the Native Americans back to life and restore their nations that we so cavalierly destroyed in our own pursuit of religious "freedom".
Without the reality of same-sex marriage, there is no freedom. This is not an argument about homosexuality, or God, or what is in the Bible, or what your moral value system is or what you feel is ethical. It is a no-argument zone. No spins here, not in the least. It is about upholding the idea that America is the representation of freedom in the world. That to be an American is to be free. Unless we have same-sex marriage recognized and legalized by every state, then we are not free. We are hypocrites, for we are according freedoms to a certain group in our population while denying those same rights to others. It is discrimination, and that is that.