Same-sex marriages

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Pandoras Box opening? Sure, let it - if it means that gays will eventually become recognized as equals to heterosexuals in all aspects - GOOD.

So we will let lesbian nazi hookers be abducted by UFOs and forced into weight loss centers?

Seriously though I'll stand behind (uhh err) gay folk in their fight for Civil Unions. Something stops me from putting the label of Marriage on it. Does it make it anything less to not be called marriage? Maybe in the eyes of wacked out religious types. But not to me.

I walked out of my church when the priest stood up there and gave a politically driven homily (which had nothing to do with the scripture he just read but more to do with the current events of the day a few years ago) about how gays should not be allowed to recieve benefits through their employer. And I haven't been back to that particular building in a while (except for my grandmother's funeral).

It's all sematics and I think that if gay people would take civil unions (if given to them) and call it a day without having to have the whole marriage label almost everyone will be happy.

There's always a segment of the population who won't be pleased but fuck them they aren't the majority.

Essentially today if the parents of a gay person dont agree with his/her lifestyle they reserve the right to deny his/her partner into a hospital to visit if the son/daughter were say in a horrible accident.

This is not right but you don't necessarily need a marriage to resolve this problem and the many other problems they face.

They shouldn't expect to share all the same luxuries as heterosexuals do. If they want to go adopt a child they should expect to encounter some resistence from agencies. This is life. Furthermore, they should not be able to file discrimination suits against these agencies. That's where this will end up. Just wait and see. They simply should be ready for it and understand that there are agencies out there that will help them. Others will lock them out.