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It's taken me a very long to accept the idea of same sex marriage.  I never felt I was bigoted, and I never minded what kind of sex two consenting adults engaged in within the privacy of their own homes.  I did support civil unions with all the same rights (still not aware of the 1,000 or so I have that single folks don't have) as marriage, but just did not want to redefine the word "marriage."  I feared that it would open the door to plural marriage.  I do want equality for gays, but I wonder if those who are so strong on this issue would think me bigoted if I said I hope we can at least confine marriage to be between two people.  I've been on some sites where you are considered bigoted if you don't support plural marriage, and I think if we are going to make it legal for any amount of people, be they a group, a cult, or whatever can be married to each other, we might just as well toss out marriage altogether and just have legal commitments for anyone who wants to be committed to however many people they want.  Like I have said many times, I do believe in equality for all, but I wonder where this is all taking us, and mainly I worry about what it will do to the strides women have made throughout the centuries.  I've heard even some feminists say nothing's wrong with plural marriage, that they could dig it, while some of my liberal women friends say it's not for them, but they are okay with it for others.  I believe that no matter what people say there are some basic differences with the majority of men and women and that most women favor monogamy, while most men like the idea of "severals" and if it there were no laws against it, women who want to marry would not have a very strong argument against it if their beloved wanted to bring others into their home.  Not a bigot in my heart, only truly concerned.