I say leave them alone. If gays want to marry who are we to say no? If they marry they are less likely to stray and have multiple partners thus making the spread of venereal diseases come to a slower halt. Leave them alone, they have the right to marry if they want, and if it happens to be same sex, who are they hurting. They love each other and want to commit to one another, let them. It takes more energy to hate than it does to love, I say leave them alone, they are the least of this country's problems!

i don't see the big deal. if you don't want to get married, don't get married. some of these people sound like they think being gay is some special secret club they belong to, and being able to get married is going to ruin all that.

there is something i haven't seen mentioned in alot of this debate, and that is international relationships. if you are straight and fall in love with someone from another country you can marry them and they can live in your country. but if you are gay you really don't have this option. if they can't find a way to remain in the same country legally, they either have to break up or have a strained long distance relationship(assuming they can afford to travel to one another's countries on a regular basis).

That's something that's really not being said a lot and is interesting to bring up but I kind of think that it's beside the point. I mean, I've definitely members of the gay community argue don't particularly want to sign onto an institution that makes people miserable and has historically been predicated on the sale of daughters. Hey, I'm a straight girl and I'm pretty ambivalent about it. (We're supposed to love marriage, aren't we?)
I get the point but it's hard to be sympathetic. "Oh, society's putting the same pressure on us as on everyone else"? It sucks, I guess, to lose that sort of social between-the-lines status. But so much so that a step toward equality should be a negative? Marriage should be a personal decision, yes?

Definitely! I'm not begrudging anyone's desire to marry. It seems strange that this is a big issue with the campaign this year when there are so many more important matters.

I'm really pushing for at least civil unions to become legal. It sucks that me and Christopher have been together 8-1/2 years, contributing to the community and being good upstanding citizens - and yet, to the government, we're no different than two roomies who just met!

Sweetheart, it's 9 1/2 years. :-*

If you upgrade your MT, it should take care of most of that nasty spam.
You should probably change that copyright to 2004, also. 2003 is SO last year.