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Originally Posted by usnamom05  Californians are going to the polls to vote on whether Gay and Lesbian people should still be able to be married in the state of CA.
I know this has been talked about before but I am curious what some of the relatively new posters think about this subject.
It has been a few months now that marraige between same sex people has been legal there and I asked my sister how her marraige has been holding up. She and my BIL, she said, have had no ill effects from the ruling and subsequent marraige of gay people. She said that her hetro friends have not seen any changes in their straight marraiges and that society out in the Bay area hasn't deteriorated nor seems on the verge of it. Neither she nor my other sister have felt the DEVESTATING effects on her family, the sacredness of her union has not yet been ripped apart. She tries to be a good citizen, raise her kids right, pay taxes, does her job every day, just like gay people do. She doesn't get what all the excitement was about.
Neither do I.
Why do I care what people do in the privacy of their own home? |
Yeah, I could really care less if gay people get married. . .just means that now they might get to experience the joys of divorce like everybody else.
I know some people have the problem with the term "marriage". So call it a civil union if that makes people feel better about it. That's a trivial thing to me. I think that it's the legal implications of it that are what is important. You should have the right to visit your ill partner in the hospital, etc.
I know there are people who have religious based, moral objections to homosexuality. But the state recognizing a civil marriage has nothing to do with that as far as I'm concerned. I see it as a seperation of church and state thing. If you are say, Luthern, and you don't think that the Luthern church should be marrying gays. Then by all means argue that, but as far as the state is concerned. . .eh.