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I have to make a point about homosexuality and choice.
Yes, it is a choice for a few people. But these people are usually bisexual (in my experience) and hence have feeling for both genders.
I also know people for whom being homosexual was NOT a choice. People who were very very very religious and for whom coming out was very painful and sad. Who prayed and prayed for their divine being to make them 'normal' again. Who made the CHOICE to be heterosexual and only found they were lieing to themselves and hurting the people they were dating. To say these people "chose" to be gay is niave and underminds all the anguish these people go through.
Re gay marriage....
I'm for gay marriage. I think that in an age of rampant divorce we should be happy to celebrate the life long vows of a homosexual couple.
However, the United States is not yet ready to grasp this. The idea of a common-law union is probably the best step forward.
However, when I wed in a civil ceremony (I have no desire to marry my husband in a church) I will wed and I will be married. Just because some people do not like me using the term outside of a religious context, it will not stop me. I feel that for homosexuals it will be the same thing. So, a union on paper, a marriage in the heart.
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