Stop bombarding us with messages of hope through marriage equality and equal opportunity to participate in state terrorism in the middle east. All the benefits of marriage should be accessible to everyone and not just monogamous gay couples. By shifting the privileged nature of marriage to same sex couples, we are not actually accomplishing any true form of liberation but only participating in the marginal practices of these institutions. The very same practices that have kept us from receiving benefits that heterosexual couples receive through a marriage legal bind.