I have been in a relationship with my same-sex partner for 25 years, and I would never be the person I am today without him. I support marriage as a religious institution for man and woman and the distinctiveness of that relationship, but when it comes down to concrete lived experience, people as Hogan seems to have difficulty to explain what exactly is so special with marriage between man and a woman. What I ask myself, is whether different kind of unions have to be emotionally different from each other, in order for the distinction between them to be justifiable.
I have been in a relationship with my same-sex partner for 25 years, and I would never be the person I am today without him. I support marriage as a religious institution for man and woman and the distinctiveness of that relationship, but when it comes down to concrete lived experience, people as Hogan seems to have difficulty to explain what exactly is so special with marriage between man and a woman. What I ask myself, is whether different kind of unions have to be emotionally different from each other, in order for the distinction between them to be justifiable.