Now, tell me if I'm missing something

But as far as I can see, the only reason to oppose gay marriage is that you are an asshole.

Nothing about letting other people have the same rights as you takes away anything from your marriage. It matters to them because it will allow couples a handful of important legal rights in very stressful situations.

If I am brought to the hospital in a coma, and my wife tells the doctor to treat me aggressively, or to let me go peacefully, they will listen to her. My girlfriend of twenty years will get no respect at the ER.

Especially if she shows up while my wife is there, deciding whether to pull the plug.

For sick partners, end of life decisions, child custody, inheritance, all those things that occur when we really don't need added stress, the married person is pretty much covered, the life partner, regardless of how long they've been together, or how committed they are, is not.

So, why not extend that  courtesy to a long term partner, who wants to commit to someone?

It's not about hurting the "sacred" nature of marriage. Liz Taylor, Larry King, and Britney Spears have already made a mockery of that, and nobody's trying to take marriage away from celebrities.  It's not about religion. No really, it's not.  The Catholic Church won't marry gays, but neither will it marry two Jews or Muslims, or even Protestants, but we aren't trying to take marriage away from heathens.  It's not about producing children, since we don't try to take marriage away from infertile couples, or couples who just don't want kids.

So, the only thing that I can come up with is that you think gays are icky, and don't want to give them rights.  We go down that road and we'll have to let broads vote and darkies drink out of the same fountains.

Now, if anybody has a real, constitutionally defensible reason we should treat homosexuals like second class citizens, please let me know, because right now, I'm just gonna run with the theory that you're an asshole.