It's an emotional issue for all parties (meant to include you and I, in particular). I think, for me, what stands out is the pretty much exclusive use of LGBT organizations, funds and bandwidth for the marriage push. Yeah, it is a right denied to a lot of LG folk who genuinely want it, and they should get it just the same as ostensibly straight folk (meant to include the invisible non-straights who marry members of the 'opposite' sex). I don't know anyone who disagrees with that. But, as has been said in the comments at Feministe, marriage alone shouldn't be seen as a panacea or a general repository of rights, because it does not serve the larger LGBT community (that it does serve a minority that is often powerful, pale and privileged is where things get complicated and emotional, fast).
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