they are calling it, here in FL.
What exactly does "marriage" need protecting from?

I'm confused, does a boy+boy or girl+girl marriage in some way rot the moral fibre of our youth?

Does the straight High School jock start mulling over a little butt action?
Does Jane Doe dreaming of her perfect wedding suddenly feel the attraction of Ellen?

It's clear that the Fear Factor is at work here, being stoked by many fundamentalist leaders. Now, it's easy to play amateur psychologist here and wonder about the pastor's own gender crisis, but extending to these people some of their own Christian Charity I'm assuming that they were brainwashed by parents, teachers and pastors in their formative years and have an embedded fear and revulsion of all that is "not normal" as being sinful and the work of Satan.

It is said that the best weapon against bigotry is education, for most of the leaders of the anti-gay movement that option is passed, but for the younger generation under their care it should be high on the agenda of all fighting for full and equal treatment under the law.

First it was women, then race relations, so it can be done but will need time, money and willpower.


Finally, it's sad that I have to sign off by saying I'm straight, as though that made a difference...

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Marriage has been defined by all cultures in all nations by all religions at all times as between a man and a woman. Now some people in California (the place of enlightenment) are willing to declare that everyone else in all cultures in all nations at all times are wrong and that they have discovered new truth. Family is not not important. Relationships can be based on convenience: man-woman; adult-child; 3-4 persons in covenant; 3-4 wives or husbands; people-animals. What does it harm? What is harmed when adults have sex with children? What is harmed if I decide I can drink and drive and the state has violated my rights to tell me I cannot? May we be delivered from the few who declare the whole world wrong and they alone as right.

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For over 5,000 years the standard religous
marriage act was good to keep our societies
normalized -- even with the negative issues
such as divorce and other broken family
problems, we've made great advances.
Now there's a 2% segment of the population
that wants to discard it all, because they
feel they're being discriminated.
You can't just decide that the 98% of the
world has been living wrong -- no, homosexuals
will have to take another route to get
their lifestyle accepted in society --
if certain states want to grant same-sex
unions that's up to them, but you don't
have justificaton for tearing up 5,000
years of accepted practice because a minority
of you feel deprived.

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