There are signs in my neighborhood urging a no on prop 8, using the equality argument. That’s one of the main reasons to vote yes: If homosexual “marriage” is treated as a matter of equality, if arbitrary definitions of marriage can be incorporated into the law by fiat, then “equality” dictates that the state also sanction the following:

• A guy who wants to marry his cousin.
• A guy who wants to marry his sister.
• A guy who wants to marry his goat.
• A guy who wants to marry a lot of women at once.
• And, in California, at least, a guy who wants to marry his car.

That would be chaos, not equality.