This editorial on gay marriage in the NY Times over the weekend really angered me.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/22/opinion/22rauch.html
Basically, the two writers offer a compromise that involves letting religion not honor our marriages. The article points out that similar compromise has been reached on matters of accommodations and employment, allowing religious people to violate protections others must honor. To me, this compromise is just not OK anymore. We've seen how working with religion to give them some extra consideration doesn't stop their hate speech and involvement in political campaigns that defeat our causes. Why continue attempting to reach a compromise with a group that is not going to change?
Our civil liberties should rarely, if ever, be a source to compromise in my humble opinion. Especially on the issue of marriage, force organized religion to come up with an honest reason why we should not be allowed to marry. Other than some inaccurate claims about biblical teachings, they can't find an argument not based on the bible. That would seem to give us the upper hand because we're right and we know the argument is ultimately on our side.