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Love is love straight or gay whats a bit of paper anyway

I suspect, that in 5 years, the USA will permit such in every state.

No matter (It seems) what the voters will say.

So much for majority opinion.

Who am I to judge anyone else...especially when it comes to questions about love?
In Sweden it is already allowed and I don't have any problems with that. Many of my friends are gay and they are as wonderful as anyone else. If they are married they are protected by the law if anything happened just as anyone else.
Just my opinion ::)

Talking about marriages, just got married justoday and I'm happy,and in the other hand i live my life the way i want and let other people live they way they want, sounds fair?

I guess I will have to be the Medieval Man here.  I feel the institution of marraige should be for a man and woman.  Though, I certainly don't believe people who love each other, regarless, should have civil rights denied them, however. 

You know, here in the US there is a talkshow that comes on everyday with an extremely funny comedian who hosts the show.She is constantly giving gifts to audience members and calling home viewers and giving away prizes for them and the fund raisers and donations she gives(and gets other celebrities and big companies to shell out the bucks too)to foundations and charities(like this month,October is cancer awareness month and if you visit [ellen.warnerbros.com] you could donate to breast cancer awareness)....my point is, she is Ellen DeGeneres.Her and Portia deRossi were married in Aug of 2008.You should be with who you want to be with,you never know...a soul is a soul (they could have been the opposite sex in a previous life,a soul lives on)and there is nothing anyone should do to prevent that,and if they want it on paper that is their choice , it shouldn't be anyone Else's decision.

I don't think ANY of us has the right 2 pass judgment on others; we CERTAINLY have no business dictating what is the 'right way' or 'wrong way' 2 do something.  I'm torn on this issue, however.  Sexual orientation is a deeply private matter, and while I do have friends that are homosexual, I don't agree with those that go around advertising their orientation.  I don't walk around w/ 'Hey, I'm heterosexual' stamped on my shirt so I don't understand the need 2 publicize your orientation if you're gay.  Again, it is a DEEPLY private/ personal issue.  Marriage?  Eh, why the hell not?  Who am I 2 say they cannot? 
By the way..... I am a newly-wed, as well   2day is our 3 week anniversary

I think the reality is very good people can differ on this topic.  And certainly there are zealots on both sides.

I wasn't going to say anything about this topic, because first off who I do or do not sleep with is no ones freaken business.

I can honestly say I have never been a big fan of marriage, to either men or woman, but sometimes it is the only way.

I don't go around talking about my sex life in public, I think its private too.

I do not push my beliefs on other people, and I don't expect them to do it to me, whether it be sex, religion, or what kind of food to eat.

There are some things you guys don't take into consideration here, which you probably wouldn't, because you think this is a sexual issue.   It isn't about sex at all.  No one needs your help in that department.

It is the legal issues where there is concern.  It isn't just taxes as Lips stated, but as in my case, I had to watch my significant other slowly die, while the hospitols fight with me telling me I am not allowed in the room because I am not related...over and over and over.

Then when she does die, I basically do not exist in the eyes of the law.  The insurance company will not accept me as family, although we have been living as a family for many years with children and a grandchild.
So I lost the person that I loved and my house and my family because the law says so.
Well, in New England where I live the laws have changed, but it is too late now for me.

We can be for or against gays...but we can't influence the situation! I mean if the society or church is against gays will never become straight, it's their nature! So it's just the fact of our reality! People choose each other (same or opposite sex), fall in love...and marriage is just the continuation of relationship! So I can say that I'm for the legacy!!

Nal, I am sorry you had to experience such. I have heard of many cases like this and that has caused a slow but steady change in such.

Laws now standing have slowed and in some cases stopped this foolishness, but it still (I have heard) continues. There's no going back of course, but what this has done is started a change of laws for those forthcoming to benefit from.

Additional note:

Just opened my election ballot and here's something interesting:

Referendum Measure 71 (This being for the State of Washington)

The legislature passed Engrossed Second Substutute Senate Bill 5688 concerning rights and responsibilties of state-registered domestic partners and voters filed a sufficent referendum petition on this bill. This bill would expand the rights, responibilties and obligations accorded state-registered same-sex and senior domestic partners to be equivelent to those of married spouses, except that a domestic partnership is not a marriage.

Nalgenie:  Thanks for sharing that story with us.  I have always asserted that while people really vary on the topic of homosexuality, people's civil rights should not be denied them.  Sadly, there are so many stories when one's S.O. could not "be there" for them in some of life's tragic moments.  Thanks for taking the risk and reminding us this is important.

The issue was same sex marriage, not homosexuality.
I am not homosexual.  My civil rights should be the same
whether I want to marry a man or a woman.

life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness  mmmmmmmmmsound familar ooops that only if your'e straight I DON"T THINK SOOOO our government should not control who we choose to live with or be happy with and that's the bottom line!!! Those of you who live in the states shouldn't even be on this site but you are why because you don't believe everything our government says  is right for you think about that i think the word FREEDOM is were it's at

I support gay couples but not the marriage.