If I didn’t know better, I’d think you read it as “ALL white, land-owning, sexually repressed, heterosexual males” are created equal — everyone else is a second class servant who exists only to serve the more-equals.

God forgive us all.

And why is this site so jammed with angry right-wing-nuts? If what is expressed on this website does not conform with what you think is right, THEN GO SOMEWHERE ELSE!!!

God, what a bunch of petty, prejudiced righties…….go stick your head back up george and dick’s assess…..

The Republican party, once the party of non-interferance of government has now done a 180. They would like to legislate the ‘persuit of happiness’ out of anyone’s life that doesn’t march in lockstep with them.

The crude, bigotted and malicious comments of many of those who are against gay rights is quite sobering. It seems that they use religuos prejudice as the basis for denying the humanity of gay people (and their own fear of people different than themselves). I would remind those Americans that ‘freedom of religion’ includes freedom from religion. Don’t use the biases of your adaptation of religion to deny rights to other Americans.

Live Free or Die is indeed a great American sentiment. Let us not impede the rights of others in their persuit of a better, happier and freer life. And let us not let our own narrow mindedness and ill founded prejudices define our attitudes towards our fellow citizens.

I already do… they’re called Bigoted Reich Wing Nutjobs… But, hey… it’s suposed to be a free country right? So I support your right to be an asshole.

I find it odd that people here think that liberals and libertarians want to make rules to tell others how to live. Under the current conservative laws in my state, my Church can’t even call my marriage what it is. A legal marraige performed in another country! How is that not an infringement of separation of church and state?

No one is telling you that YOU have to marry someone of the same sex… NOR are they telling your church to do it. What they ARE saying is that I can’t and my church can’t. That’s not really free now is it?

Conservatives have taken away more rights from people and have imposed more government involvement in personal matters than ANY libertarian EVER would.

As for comparing my marriage to pedophiles, beastiality, etc…. that’s just ignorance. It’s really you that worries me… I am in a loving and committed relatinoship with another consenting adult and the first place your mind goes is to goat snogging and innappropriate touching of kids? I think YOU are the one with some real problems if that’s the first thing you think of. Methinks Thou Dost Protest Too Much!

And why shouldn’t my marriage be recognized? It’s the only contract that we both can legally sign… just not with eachother? That dosen’t make sense. It’s the *only* legal contract limited by sex. It’s also the only contract that no states have to honor if it’s from another state.

Heck… in my state they won’t marry 16-year-olds (nor should they)… but if I went to a state that would and I were 16 (straight) and married my high school sweetheart… well… my state would have to recognize it. They would recognize a marriage they wouldn’t preform AND it’s even between 2 people who aren’t even old enough to possibly begin to comprehend what a marriage is… nor are they old enough to sign a contract without their parents approving it!

As to Brownback’s “more children are born out of wedlock since redefining marriage”… there is no causal relationship between the two. You could also say that since Denmark has allowed marriage between same-sex couples, internet usage has gone up. The gay couples had NOTHING to do with internet usage.

Also… how can you REDEFINE something that has been defined in SOOOOO many way throughout history and cultures? Limiting marriage to only one man and one woman would be redefining it. that type of marriage is anything but traditional. Sure, it’s the norm now (in this country)… but it hasn’t always been that way throughout history. (How many wives did Abraham have again?)

Also, I can assure you that my having sex with my wife (same-sex as myself) did not, in any way, contribute to the number of children born out of wedlock.

However… we are planning on having children… since our marriage isn’t recognized, would THAT be considered a child born out of wedlock?

Shouldn’t we be fostering loving and healthy relatinoships? Aren’t there enough unhappy people out there and children without good and safe homes?

Why is it that I VALUE FAMILY but YOU don’t value MY family? How is it that you feel that you have a right to say what’s a family and what’s not? Many people grow up with a mom and a dad in very abusive homes and can hardly be called a family… some kids just have a mom and they are called a family… some kids just a dad or a grandma and they are called a family… some people don’t even have kids (or want them) and they are called a family… they count and my family doesn’t?

I think that many of the people going around shouting “family values” don’t understand that gay people have family values just as much as straight people… and that they need to stop shoulting “family values” unless they are going to value families.

Comment by easywind —

Not threatened, just marriage redefined.
Interesting opinion you have.

After all the damage Bush has done, I think there’s at least an outside chance that a new party will emerge, and absorb the small government crowd, while the “values” people go back to the fringes.

Answer: Because its their blog.

Filter the threads!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDDdW4UiVfg

I sincerely hope your love is much stronger than it appears to be through your posts.

teh gays are tearing them apart.

http://islandia.law.yale.edu/GayMarriageBook/

Let me repeat the sentence that seems to always be overlooked by the right-whiners:

“If we look at the proof from abroad, the authors argue, we must conclude that the sanctioning of gay marriage in the United States would neither undermine marriage as an institution, nor harm the well-being of our nation’s children.”

By the way, bitbit, why don’t YOU trade ME 5 honest dollar bills for a fake 5 dollar bill. That’s what we all got in the US when Pres. Bush, who was a failure at everything he ever did in his life, was granted the Presidency by a COURT DECISION!

Why the right-whiners didn’t want the VOTE to decide is beyond me. Oh, I know why: they would have lost!

Fact: Gay marriage is a counterfeit.

What’s the saying about “lipstick on a pig”?
You put lipstick on a pig, it’s still a pig”

Wise words well written but will not be understood by many here.

What if a bi-sexual wants to marry a man and a woman he/she loves?
Shouldn’t he/she have “equal protection under the law”?

Gay marriage does not contribute to the decline of morality, it’s the lack of morals by those who claim to have them that causes moral decline. Now, lets get the hypocritical congressmen (on both sides) out before they do even more damage than they already have!

If “gay marriage” does not contribute to the decline of morality, then I suppose you’d happily give me four real five-dollar bills for a counterfeit twenty dollar bill.

After all, it wouldn’t be hurting any one, and you could probably spend it. Why is it that the government gets so antsy when someone tries to print their own money? Shouldn’t everyone be allow to print their own money? (Believe the U.S. Constitution does have something to say about this.)

But what’s the problem here? The problem here is in faith in the government to have a fair means of exchange.

So what’s the problem with two homosexuals “marrying?” It undermines or marriage. It undermines the faith that marriage is vital to the nation.

It makes the society less valuable, less worth preserving.

Anyone here want to sign up to be in the Army to protect the country that allows two men to be “married?”

This issue has the potential to be a nation breaker.

That’s the moral damage that “gay marriage” causes. It’s not really a marriage. It can’t really be a marriage. Only a man and a woman can enter into a marriage – the Biblical “one flesh” relationship. Same-same gender couples can only enter into perversion, which is detrimental to everyone, even the participants.

…, it’s the lack of morals by those who claim to have them that causes moral decline.

This impresses me as being really close to “wrong is right” and “right is wrong.” Wonder if this what the poster intended.

Now, lets get the hypocritical congressmen (on both sides) out before they do even more damage than they already have!

Since this remark is in the same paragraph with the remark on “homosexual marriage,” I take it to mean that we should allow “homosexual marriage” because there are hypocritical congressmen. These two are in no way related, but count on it, when homosexuality is being discussed on the INet, someone will make sure that the everyone else knows the whole world is tainted.

Gay marriage does not contribute to the decline of morality, it’s the lack of morals by those who claim to have them that causes moral decline. Now, lets get the hypocritical congressmen (on both sides) out before they do even more damage than they already have!