What gays and lesbians are teaching us about marriage

What gays and lesbians are teaching us about marriage  MGB: I wrote a column about this last week.  Advocates of gay marriage should be up front on a desire to destroy the traditional view of marriage, which places the man over the woman.  That can't happen in a marriage of equals and this is what both the Church and heterosexuals can learn from gay marriage.  Marriage is, first and foremost, the basic adult right.  Without the right to form a new family using this tool, gay people are forever tied as infants to their families of origin.  That cannot be allowed and it won't be for long.  The Church has itself to blame for the need for gay marriage, since it was often the force encouraging families to exclude a gay partner from both hospital visitation and exercising the next of kin rights of a spouse.  If Church hospitals had practiced basic human decency, rather than trying to ram through a death bed conversion, gay marriage would be less of an issue.