03-05-2004, 03:22 PM
Quote:If a gay couple goes to San Fran gets married today and comes home to say New Jersey and attempts to get benefits through their employer, they will be denied. Then what are they going to do? File suit against their employer? They state of New Jersey? Should they have that right? Their marriage isn't recognized in this state only in California hell I don't even know if it is recognized outside the city of San Francisco do they? Should they? Should every state and furthermore they United States change their laws and recognize these things because some self righteous mayor in California decides to take it upon himself to start performing gay marriages?
Header, your concerns are fair but I must ask:
Are you basically saying that it would be too much of a pain in the ass to get all the states in cohoots on this issue?
Don't you think gays are acclimated to that very same pain? :tongue:
Seriously though, don't you think homosexuals are willing to put up with these current limitations until such a time that all states are on the same page and recognize gays as equals?
What the Mayor did may have been illegal at this point in time but it doesn't make his actions wrong, not in my estimation. Remember, at one point, it was illegal for blacks to vote.
Besides, "Without struggle, there can be no progress"
Also, just because I say gays should have the right to marry, that doesn't mean that churches should be FORCED to marry them. Uhh uhh. No way. A religious establishment has the right to maintain the traditions of their religion (as ignorant as those traditions may be). I don't plan on arguing that religions need to change to cater to homosexuals. Then again, any religion that doesn't accept ALL HUMANKIND (regardles of their sexual preferences) as a potential member is an awful religion and should be eradicated anyways. But thats just my opinion.
Pandoras Box opening? Sure, let it - if it means that gays will eventually become recognized as equals to heterosexuals in all aspects - GOOD.
The only difference we should deal with (and never force to change) about homosexuals is the fact that the guys like the kak and the females only prefer bearded (or neatly trimmed/shaved) clams.
Otherwise, let them live as freely as the rest of us.