as a single male you won't need to visit yourself in the hospital, you won't need your own health benefits, and you won't need to be able to stay in your own after you die. a privilage is something that is granted to you, you lose your television privilages if you misbehave...eating is necessity...so marriage and eating are on different levels. marriage becomes a right when it is ok for most others but not for a certain group...male female marriages are granted with minimal contest... i do understand (all to well) that the world is not perfect...however that doesn't mean we can't strive for improvment.
That doesnt work Patch. I do not have the privilige to visit people after hours in the hospital. Yes I need medical benefits and i dont get widower benefits if my best friend or the girl Im seeng dies.
A privilege? Meaning: a right reserved exclusively by a particular person or group (especially a hereditary or official right); "suffrage was the prerogative of white adult males." By definition I guess you are correct, but this does not make it right. As the example in the definition (from Princeton) suggests, voting was a privilege enjoyed by only white males. It is now a right. This still does not mean that it is not a civil rights issue, just as women's suffrage and african-american suffrage was a civil rights issue before it became a right. Civil rights is defined by Princeton as: right or rights belonging to a person by reason of citizenship including especially the fundamental freedoms and privileges guaranteed by the 13th and 14th amendments and subsequent acts of Congress including the right to legal and social and economic equality. This note is also made on the definition page: Whereas the rights of African-Americans should have been secured with the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Constitutional Amendments (1865-1868), it was actually a full century before a complete Civil Rights Act (1965) entered the books. It guaranteed voting rights, which had been incomplete in the face of local registration requirements, and prohibited various sorts of discrimination and segregation. This act had implications not only for blacks, but for all minorities; it spoke against gender-based discrimination also.
Its not your right to marry another woman. You may hope to convince the majority to give you the privilages of State recognised Marriage. Great. But stop pretending as if you already have that right 'if only' it were not being withheld from you.