Proposition 8

I have long been puzzled by straight-phobes denial of the simple fact that marriage has a definition which has held steady for the last 2,000 years in Western society.
I have also been puzzled by the claim that it somehow breaches an equal protection provided by the constitution. After all doesn't it prevent me, a male who is not homosexual (or doesn't know he is) from marrying another male?
In our civil rights struggle we fought for the equal application of the law on both whites and blacks. If I could sit at a counter, so could anyone else. If I could get married, so could anyone else.
We did not fight over what it meant to sit on a counter, or what it meant to be married.
Leon