The younger generation has a totally different view on this and considers it a non-issue. Not to mention the hundreds of children who are now, as I type, being raised by same-sex couples across America and across the World.

Several studies have already shown that these children, raised by LGBT parents, are actually more accepting of diversity and difference and more likely to lead us into a new way of thinking…one in which, gender, sexuality, color of skin, etc…is a non-issue.

So those of you who still continue to believe that being gay is wrong or that same-sex marriage is similar to incest or bestiality…well you folks will continue to have the right to your opinion, of course, but you will find yourselves, like the KKK and other hateful groups, spouting your prejudice on deaf ears.

They are separate as they should be.

Why we mix the two in this country (from a legal standpoint) is just ridiculous.

My only concern is with having the same exact legal recourse as everyone.

As for all the comparisons some people are making, it’s gotten really tiresome folks..let’s get real.

The better comparison would be to interracial marriage, which was, up until Loving vs. Virginia, illegal in many states, remember? Or is your memory that short?

To tell two consenting adults what kind of relationship they can or can not get into is not the business of my neighbor or the church or the government.

I am all for individual churches/religions having their own rules that govern the folks who believe in that religion.

I am a non-believer and am not affiliated with any church or religion. I don’t believe in the Bible or in any organized religion…why on Earth should I be subject to their rules? Ridiculous.

I am however, a law-abiding, tax paying and voting citizen born in these United States and as such, I have THE RIGHT to all the same exact legal recourses that my straight brothers and sisters have.

END OF DISCUSSION…INDEED.

As a practical matter, there is overwhelming support for most if not all of the “marriage” law provisions; an alternative to elimination is revision of the above (and other relevant) laws (should they be, at least in their current form) to apply when there was an appropraite contactual agreement (this could be inherent in a marriage) between two persons who were eligible and competent to enter into such an agreement.

Indeed, since something like 30 states now have constitutional provisions defining marriage as involving a man and a woman, extending the laws concerning marriage to apply to contractual agreements between two parties, irrespective of gender, appears to me to be the most promising way forward.

That sounds more like info from their website, which I would also hesitate to call a “fact.”

On the other hand, I’m not sure I see a hate crime at all. Hard to say. This was an attack on a group for its beliefs, sort of the reverse of a typical hate crime.

Is it hateful to deny muslims and mormons polygamy?