I am continually astonished by the implication that something is being taken away from these people.
They do not have and never have had this status. That is very different from taking away something.
<<<< I see marriage as a contract between two consenting adults. Beyond that, let your religion (if any) define it for you; don’t use your religion to define it for everyone else >>>>>
What an idiot. What about three consenting adults? A consenting adult and a consenting child? How do we know exactly what consent is? Lawyers and academics can define anything in anyway.
Then government forces the rest of us to accept their abnormal behavior as normal.