Muscatine

Yep, the government needs to keep it's nose out of our business, even when it merely defines marriage as a union between a man and woman.  I mean, think of all the poor schmucks out there who enjoy a good fling with a sheep or goat.  What's goin' to happen to all of the poor animals if they are denied all the rights and priviledges that are gained by marrying a human? And how 'bout all those pedophiles and child molesters? Surely we can't change the rules for the same-sex folks and leave out the kid grabbers just because they have a different "preference". All of the necropheliacs in the crowd could keep a cold one in the fridge, just to take advantage of their newly acquired "married" status.  I went to college with a fellow who pleasured himself at least three times a day, so what's keeping us from making his right hand a legal partner? 

Yessir, it's all about preference, and if we're going to start normalizing the deviant among us, let's be fair about it and go all the way.  Then your kids and my kids will be able to walk into wal-mart, see two burly bikers slippin' each other the tongue, and be wise enough to not be grossed out by it.  A perfect world........

There is one area I don't think has been talked about here at least so far, when the legal  marriage between gays takes place  now it can't be just a walk away situtation if or when they get tired of each other, now it involves lawyers and courts and property, etc.. 

As with anything someone is going to make money off of this new situtation.

I am wondering how the new don't ask don't tell ruling is going to effect the military or not and how will they look upon a gay marriage when it comes to benefits. 

Mal:  You are clueless as usual.  Do some of your own research:

Across history and cultures . . . marriage’s single most fundamental idea is that every child needs a mother and a father. Changing marriage to accommodate same-sex couples would nullify this principle in culture and in law. 

            How so? 

            The law is a great teacher, and same sex marriage will teach future generations that marriage is not about children but about coupling. When marriage becomes nothing more than coupling, fewer people will get married to have children.               

            So what?

            People will still have children, of course, but many more of them out-of wedlock. That’s a disaster for everyone. Children will be hurt because illegitimate parents (there are no illegitimate children) often never form a family, and those that “shack up” break up at a rate two to three times that of married parents.  Society will be hurt because illegitimacy starts a chain of negative effects that fall like dominoes—illegitimacy leads to poverty, crime, and higher welfare costs which lead to bigger government, higher taxes, and a slower economy.  

            Are these just the hysterical cries of an alarmist?  No. We can see the connection between same-sex marriage and illegitimacy in Scandinavian countries. Norway, for example, has had de-facto same-sex marriage since the early nineties. In Nordland, the most liberal county of Norway, where they fly “gay” rainbow flags over their churches, out-of-wedlock births have soared—more than 80 percent of women giving birth for the first time, 

and nearly 70 percent of all children, are born out of wedlock! Across all of Norway, illegitimacy rose from 39 percent to 50 percent in the first decade of same-sex marriage. 

            Anthropologist Stanley Kurtz writes, “When we look at Nordland and Nord-Troendelag — the Vermont and Massachusetts of Norway — we are peering as far as we can into the future of marriage in a world where gay marriage is almost totally accepted. What we see is a place where marriage itself has almost totally disappeared.” He asserts that “Scandinavian gay marriage has driven home the message that marriage itself is outdated, and that virtually any family form, including out-of-wedlock parenthood, is acceptable.”

           International surveys show that same-sex marriage and the erosion of traditional marriage tend to go together. Traditional marriage is weakest and illegitimacy strongest wherever same-sex marriage is legal.