Your response was well versed, I agree on many points but most of all the orgy. Let's all fuck to celebrate freedom!

absolutely should be legal--no one is entitled to judge the sexual orientation of  a person  (except a pedophile or rapist--and then its about powere not sex)

My parents were married in the 1980's at the heights of the AIDS revolution. They were friends in high school and both raised Catholic, naturally marrying each other was the way to go after my father's return from an over seas post in the Air Force. I have two younger siblings, and we were raised highly religious... At the ripe old age of 13 my mom started telling me it was OK to be gay... out of the blue while driving in the car she would always say "if you were gay I would still love you.....". Apparently I didn't pick up on the subtle hints that in fact- my make-up less, mullet & camo sporting mom would be cheating on my dad in a torrid lesbian affair..... Right after Christmas when I was 14 the cat was out of the closet.

Roxanne,

Your kind words of encouragement have brightened my day! I am humbled.

I believe everyone has the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of unhappiness.

My little 25 year old half sister is getting married to her wonderful partner next summer. Washington State..it's legal there.

I think domestic partnerships should be the rule for everyone.  Calling the union of two people who love each other marriage only serves to polarize the population along ideological lines.   Religious people will save their sacred word "marriage" and it will be used only in a sense of ceremony as opposed to a legal status.  Gay couples would be afforded the same rights but will not be able to go after religious institutions for not recognizing them.  I'm sure there are more things to work out but it seems like a bunch of hoo haa over something that over 50 per cent of the population eventually regrets.

I can at least understand the logic here.  If the purpose of marriage is procreation, then there is, at least, a logical connection to denying homosexuals the right to marry.    

I have made such an argument in the past and heard the same old,"....well what if the a heterosexual couple is sterile?" argument. The point is that's it's a physical impossibility. The fact is that a gay couple lack the remotest possibility(by nature) to conceive. I'm not trying to knock them or anything, just pointing out a fact. I am against gay marriage, but not against civil unions. I do want homosexual couple to have all the benefits that married couples have like visitation in a hospital, tax breaks, etc. My only gripe is I don't want to the word marriage used. We are NOT the same.  Just my .02 cents

So as long as people agree with you, it's cool? But if someone voices even the mildest dissent, they are asked to explain why? Really? It is not decision made on religious beliefs as often as you may think. The religious nuts are the ones we hear from the most though I agree. I know for me it's a personal choice and I don't have to defend or explain it anymore than a person who supports it. I respect their decisions even if I disagree with it. While I don't subscribe to the religious arguments against gay marriage, I will stand by and listen to them. Should gay marriage ever become the norm, I will tolerate it more than I would accept it.

It sounded good, but I immedialy realized my error, but the deed was done.  I thankyou for seeing the fallacy of my aurgument.  I know in my narrow minded reasoning there has to be a valid aurgument besides stating marriage by deffinition is the union of one man and one woman.  That is too simplistic and f@#%ing stupid.

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