Just an update: The article is almost done-I hope I can finish it by friday, by working through my lunch periods. In the meantime, here is something that I wrote a while back, that has been sitting in my folder:

Why Gay Marriage is not Specail Rights, but Mearly Additional Rights:
By Alexander Michaels

    People are always saying how giving homosexuals the right to marry is giving them special rights, that heterosexuals do not have. That we already have equal rights, they will say. And this statement is absolutly true. We have equal rights. Any man can marry any woman, and vica-versa. If gay marriage was legalized, now any man could marry and woman, or any man, and again, vica-versa. This would not be special rights, this would not be equal rights, this would be additional rights for all.

   And why shouldn't we give these additional rights. Because homosexuals will be the only ones using them? Well, lets flip the table. Say only homosexual marriage was allowed, and we wanted heterosexual marriage. It would be additional rights, only heterosexuals would use. See what I am getting at? This would not be about giving someone special rights, or equal rights. This is giving an additional right, that gives everyone a choice. Yes, homosexuals, bisexuals, transexuals will be the only one using this. But only heterosexuals are using the marriage that exists right now.