This Valentine's Day, millions of americans will be treated unequally by their government, denied such basic liberties such as the freedom to get married, or adopt children.
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Ton Phanan2007-02-22 22:27 ID:O8AUQKdM
As far as I have been able to ascertain, the main reason for gays to marry is to gain full spouse status for a variety of economic and security issues, such as insurance rights, and for purposes of adoption.
Personally, I don't care if you call it marriage or a social contract or whatever, the semantics doesn't affect me. What I do think is that at no point should any gay wedding take place in any church, as the blatant hypocrisy would likely desanctify the area and Republicans another issue to piledrive into the ground. I believe that gays should otherwise be offered the same rights as other married couples, with the exception of a heightened scrutiny for being eligible for adoption.
Marriage itself is a weakened institution thanks to people being fools with regards to what it entails. Las Vegas doesn't help either. However, people still believe that marriage is some immaculate concept that should not be sullied. Personally, that should be the issue at hand.