Gay Marriage and YOU: Keith Olbermann's Excellent Statement
Don't have much to add to this except I am also a straight man from a family of straight folks who support Marriage Equality and just don't get this whole homophobic anti-gay marriage movement:
What I don't understand is how two consenting adults loving each other threatens anyone else? My marriage isn't threatened if gays can marry!
Personally I agree
I personally think that civil unions are the only thing Governments should do while marriage is a separate, personal and maybe religious thing with no legal strings attached. THAT is the best way and is the way I remember Al Franken advocating at one time (or at least discussing).
But I am not sure it is possible to make that kind of shift. It has been called marriage for so long I can't imagine people going for it.
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I saw that and got upset for all the wrong reasons :)
People may get marriage for love or other reasons. The law doesn't care and shoudn't care. The law shouldn't have a "proof of love" for getting married. What we need to face is that "marriage" is discriminatory and for that reason it either is changed to fit all marriages or it's taken off the books because it has discrimination so ingrained in its meaning that it can't be changed at all.
I vote for throwing marriage off the books as unconstitutional and only recognizing civil unions. If you want to get married, then you have to go get it at a church.