...the right to get hitched so that the national debate can move towards issues that will directly affect the betterment of the country?

Puhleze?

When faced with the ability to bring home food for your and your children, or send your neighbor or their kids off to die in a perpetual war, how important is whether your next-door neighbor is bob and bill instead of bob and jill?

Let people please themselves however they wish, so long as it doesn't harm others. Damn those who would sacrifice our entire country and our way of life to institute their dominion over the life style choices of their fellows, that they themselves enjoy, especially when there are so few, who want so little.

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state of our wonderful, generous country should allow two people to marry regardless of gender, color religion, politcal beliefs etc., etc.like we do, and now Connecticut. How narrow and dirty minded the rest of the country can be. It is all about CHOICE. We have more vital problems to heal.

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Not enough blame is being laid at the feet of ignorant, uneducated religious wingnuts and their hateful churches. Rise up against them and demand that they prove their asshole god exists if it is going to be used as the basis of laws to discriminate against millions of tax-paying citizens. Start fighting the war in their territory, attack churches and religious wackos who attack freedom and liberty for all people, and expose their anti-sex, anti-science agenda. Putting civil rights and equality to a vote is pure BULLYING and has nothing to do with democracy and these religious cave folks know it, but are being allowed to get away with their antics. Time to riot, time to withhold federal and state taxes, boycott right-wing businesses, cause nationwide disorder and instability. When the economy begins to truly collapse and civil war looms, the money-hungry hypcrites on the religious right will change their medieval tune.

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The LGBT's apparently sent a white powder to the Mormons and to the Knights of Columbus headquarters in New Haven, Ct. I guess it was supposed to be an anthrax scare.

I see some parallels between that scare and the endless 'terrorist's are coming scares' perpetrated by Bush and his Republican fear mongers. I don't really know what to take from these parallel events, except to say that the Bushies and their associated religions got some scares of their own.

Also that if one pushes people far enough and hard enough they will fight back, just as the Iraqis have done. And as the Iranians did to retaliate against America for overthrowing their democratically elected Premiere Mohammed Mosaddeq, back in 1953.

I think their are some profound lessons in that mix of events. Ones that SHOULD tell us all something about human beings. But when do some people in power, religious or governmental power, ever learn those lessons. So far, never, no,nyet, nada. And not likely in the foreseeable future, given these recent events.

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