kelly, i really don’t understand how you could possibly care who gets married to who. i am really confused by people like you. if you ever had a good reason other than "marriage is between blah and blah" or "God says" or "the majority says" - is there an actual reason? like, gays will blow up the earth? gays will kill you if they can get married? gays will… somehow… unleash the end of the world? what is the reason you feel the need to get up in everyones business and tell them who they can marry and who they can’t?

How nice that those who wish to pretend that they are married can move there.

no matter where they move, because of the discriminatory "defense of marriage" act, those married couples, if they dare to share the same genitals, would not get the same if one had a penis and one had a vagina…

more than 1,138 rights and protections are conferred to U.S. citizens upon marriage by the federal government; areas affected include Social Security benefits, veterans’ benefits, health insurance, Medicaid, hospital visitation, estate taxes, retirement savings, pensions, family leave, and immigration law.

those protections are not granted to them, no matter where they move in the united states.

Gays have all of the protections that other Americans have, they just want the social justification of their sexual behavior.

no they dont. no they don’t. they want to be able to marry and have the 1,138 protections outlined above that they currently are not extended. they do not care what yolu want, they don’t care about social justification - they want those legal rights extended to them and their loving partner. do you know a lot of gay couples don’t have sex, just like some heterosexual couples? i know one. they are elderly and simply don’t want to have sex. they don’t HAVE sexual behavior to be justified  -they want to marry the person they love and be able to collect their Social Security benefits, veterans’ benefits, share health insurance, share Medicaid, visit their loved on in the hospital, be involved with their estate taxes, be involved in retirement savings, be involved with pensions, be invovled with family leave…

you seem compeltely obsessed with the idea of gay sex - this has nothing to do with sex or "justifying" anything. it has to do with legal rights and protections.

As you are aware of, there is a faction within the gay community that places a very high importance on bedding "straight" individuals.

LOL…. uhhhhh…… no, never heard of that. ever. i was in love with and living with a female for over 5 years, and was involved with many other gay individuals all my life, the gay community in several states and many cities… and never once have i heard what you are saying. and really, i dont’ care what other people do in bed. didnt you say you didn’t care what goes on behind closed doors?

there’s also a small fraction of straight people who like to kill gay people… does that say something about the entire straight community? nope.

Gays marriage does not compare to slavery or womens right to vote by any stretch of the imagination.

in every single way - a group of people are denied rights because the majority says "you have all the rights you need - i dont care about your special interests".

black rights used to be called "special interests". womens rights used to be called "special interests" - simply because they weren’t part of the majority.

if gays can already do everything you say, then them getting married shouldn’t get you all worked up.

why not go get married yourself and focus on YOUR marriage?