Are Uppity Women Paving the Way for Gay Marriage, or Closing the Door?

The divorce rate among STRAIGHT people in this country EXCEEDS 50%!!! Further, if people want to go down the "sexual" road.....perhaps we should talk about the MILLIONS of children born to UNWED STRAIGHT PARENTS in this country. Not exactly the "marriage" that the opponents of gay marriage like to admit.

This whole issue has NO BASIS in morality OR religeon. NONE. PERIOD. Religeous people will say that God says same sex marriage is wrong. Well, my God never said that...MY God tells me to love my neighbor and do unto others....etc.

BOTTOM LINE....This is a constitutional issue, which the republican tea party frenge wing should LOVE, as they cling to the constitution. There is ZERO BASIS to exclude certain people from civil rights in equality in this country. Black people experienced this, and all other minorities as well.

Another fact....the OVERWHELMING MAJORITY of the self appointed "moral police" that are so adimately against full equality are WHITE MEN over the age of 50. NEWS FLASH to those people....America is tired of your hate and discrimination, and in 2010, it is YOU who are in the minority. Have a nice day.

Anyone who says gay marriage, or gay unions or gay relationships are just about sex has never been in one. I met my partner in 1981, when I was in college. We were both attracted to eachother, but more important, we became strong friends as well. He inspired me to become politically active on campus - I ran for, and became the Chairman of the university program board. He loved the fact that I was into running every day - and so he came with me, and started exercising for his health. I was intrigued with Science, and he was in medicine. When I finished my degree, I enrolled in his school to study for two more years in geosciences. Together, we mutually inspired eachother. We traveled together, and I would help him prepare speaches that he had to give at his hospital later on because I was the better writer. We shared a life together. We did everything a hetero couple does together - with the exception of having kids.
My partner also inspired my nephews and nieces, and I was well loved by his nephews. We shared our lives together for 25 years. At the end, he was diagnosed with cancer, and I took off work, and was his primary caretaker for the last 15 months of his life. If you think the relationship was all about sex, all I can suggest is that you are projecting your own viewpoint of what a relationship is all about, and that's fine for you, but it certainly wasn't me and my partner. All of the people we hung around with were also in long term relationships, and they shared other things, like religion, politics, hobbies, interests, etc. Sex is a very small part of the bigger picture of love and the wonderful gift of becoming soul-mates. Please, don't confuse what I had with my partner with whatever it is you call a relationship, because what we had was a full life, rich with experiences and love.

Love is not sex. SEX is just sex and untill people understand this , the world will stay crazy. What in the xxxx does one womam get from being with another woman ? Just what they call love that is just sex. Are they sick or what ? Never lasts does it ?

I wonder how much of our tax dollars is or has been used for this? As for gay marriage itself: Live and let live. As long as they adhere to the same civil and tax laws, who are we to tell a committed couple they cannot marry their s.o.? We give more benefits and rights to illegal immigrants who don't even speak our language, pay taxes, or even live here legally than we do gays who want to be married. As long as they are over 18, both concenting, respect and obey laws governing a traditional marriage, it is their business. Sounds like it is 'justice for all as long as you think like I do.' C'mon USA join the 21st century.

It may be a way around the glass ceiling for occupations formerly barred for women. Perhaps they now need to form their own church run by women executives and modled like the Roman Catholic Church and see how peace with one's self the other side can be.

This article was fun and smart...even Christian theologians know that judging someone get's us nowhere, so we might as well do the old fashioned thing--get to know each other as individuals and allow each of to choose the lifestyle we find most productive and that fits our lives and SELF....Can't we all just try harder to get along/ can't we all live our lives so that we let others live theirs? Irregardles, the majority of us have no control over that other person to begin with and we do control our choices to live according to the values we choose...GOD IS LOVE, not ......Talk about the differences.......Use energy on common ground....and be happy when people find love. Period. Its an absolute treasure in today's hardships....Let all "them" be happy. Go find your own too.

Why do we maintain the institution of marriage. Just move in together. If you feel you must have some sort of legal document then we need a form that you send in to a governmental agency with both of your signatures-have it notarized if you wish.