Is it hypocritical to feel strongly about marriage equality but at the same time never want to get married myself?
Not at all, the first is a social equality issue(everyone should have the right to get married, regardless of their orientation/gender). The second is a personal decision. Every individual should first: have the right to marry, and second: have the freedom to choose whether or not to do so. You're in the clear, from my perspective.
No! Just because you don't want to partake in an institution doesn't mean that discrimination against same-sex couples that do want to partake is ok.
it is not! You can have many reasons not to want one... For example I know some people that do not want to get married because of all the implications that marriage used to have (misogyny, religion, etc...). I want to get married but I want a humanist ceremony. I like the idea of letting my beloved ones that I love my (hypothetical for now) boyfriend and want to spend my life with him. You could do that with a civil partnership but I think I prefer a humanist ceremony (no religion involved in my marriage, please ), since they can be very personal and exactly how you want Here in the UK LGBT activists are fighting to make civil partnerships legal for straight people, since there was a poll some time ago that indicated that a significant amount of heterosexual people would prefer this (mainly due to the reasons I have cited earlier). And I think it is the fair thing to do, freedom to chose for everyone.
I feel the same way. It isn't hypocritical, not in the slightest. What could be wrong with believing people deserve rights that you aren't interested in?
^This. You're exercising your right to say 'I don't want to get married', that's different to someone else telling you: 'You can't get married'.
I don't believe so. Does that mean if you don't own a dog or cat, you shouldn't feel strongly about shelters putting down animals?
It'd only be hypocrytical if you said nobody else could get married, and then you get married. Your doing the opposite, which is perfectly acceptable
I don't understand how that's hypocritical. I don't eat shrimp, but I think other people have the right to eat them. Does that make me a hypocrite?
