The only reason I'm against gay marriage is because it's like "regular" marriage: boring

Is this what we have to protect straight marriage from?

"Lyon, now 84, and Martin, now 87, Martin vividly recall the excitement of being secretly swept into the clerk's office, saying"I do" in front of a tiny group of city staff members and friends, and then being rushed out of the building. There were no corsages, no bottles of champagne. Afterward they went to lunch, just the two of them, at a restaurant run as a job training program for participants in a substance abuse program.

"Of course, nobody down there knew, so we were left to be by ourselves like we wanted to be," said Martin, the less gregarious of the two. "Then we came home."

"And watched TV," added Lyon."

I just don't get why anyone would want to prevent two people who love each other from spending the rest of their lives together, and having the state recognize their desire to do so. Gay marriage is not about politics or religion. Simply put, it's about two people who happen to be of the same gender who want the right to see each other day in and day out, eat the same meals together in the same dining room where they argued over the beige-ish sandy brown paint color in the middle of Loews, travel to the same boring beach resorts every five years and take a cruise on their 15 year anniversary, visit the same annoying in-laws, walk the same dog, feed the same cat, watch the same made-for-tv movies, argue over household bills and shared bank accounts, host the same 4th of July cookout, hate the same next door neighbor, complain about toothpaste tube squeezing/shower hair clogs/messy bathroom sink, worry about retirement, build a new patio, worry about their spouses overindulgence in salt, worry about their over-30 single friends, get annoyed when the one stays up late reading and the other can't go to sleep because of the light as heterosexual couples do. It's about the basic, human right to lead a bland life with the person you love. What's so criminal about that?