I am married to a 43 year-old straight woman.
We have been married to each other for almost 17 years (in a row).
We have one child.
We were married in a church, by her uncle, a retired Methodist minister.
I work full time and am the sole breadwinner in our family. My wife is a stay-at-home mom.
I tell you all of this to say that when it comes to a "traditional" marriage, it doesn't get more "traditional" than mine.
Opponents of marriage equality contend that allowing homosexual couples to enjoy the same rights to have their unions legally recognized will threaten traditional marriage.
In my 17 years of "traditional" marriage, not once has the union (legally recognized or not) of a single solitary homosexual couple threatened my marriage.
Allowing my gay friends and relatives and their life partners to enjoy the rights and responsibilities of a legally recognized married couple poses absolutely no threat to my or my wife's rights and responsibilities as a legally recognized married couple, any more than expanding the right of marriage to interracial couples poses a threat to same-race couples or inter-faith marriages poses a threat same-faith marriages.
What does threaten my marriage is a government being allowed to discriminate against people.
The same governmen tthat can deny the right of legal marriage to a same-sex couple is the same government that can deny the right of marriage to any one of us for any arbitrary reason whatsoever.
Personally, I can think of no greater threat to my "traditional" marriage than that.
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." -Dr. Martin Luther King
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