Crosscheck wrote:
NYIntensity wrote:
This is NOT a nation founded on religion, so take your Bible thumping antics elsewhere.
Calm down.
Marriage, for better, or worse in my opinion, is regulated and controlled by the state because it is a legal contract to which
many laws apply.
Those laws are friggin old so they don't consider things like a guy wanting to wear a dress and marry his best buddy.
It takes a long time to change those laws.
No one crusaded for that, it is what it is.
Since public opinion is against gay marriage (if you can't pass that in California you can't pass it anywhere) you're going to have to wait for the courts to reverse those laws.
The real answer here is civil unions for all and marriage is only a religious term.
End of story.Exactly. The issue here isn't whether a gay couple wants to use the term "married" or not. They could care less about that, they just want equal spousal rights under the law, ie shared benefits and rights that apply to married opposite sex couples. I'm straight, but know many gay pepole and have gay friends. I believe they are entitled to the same "rights" anyone else is...all while being AGAINST gay "marriage." As a Catholic I believe that term, NOT right, has always been and should always be, reserved for a union between a man and a woman. BUT a gay couple deserves any and all rights/benefits of married couples, but the "term" marriage, as it is, is a union between a man and a woman, just my opinion. This does not mean that a civil union between two consenting, same sex adults should not carry all the obligations/benefits that come with marriage.
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