[Rudey]

This has nothing to do with women working and men staying home - it has to do with being a family, children and all.

-Rudey

Originally posted by pirepresent
I agree that the "traditional family" has disintegrated somewhat. But you can't legislate against that. Part of why it has done so is for good reasons - like women having more time consuming and challenging careers, as one example. The classic family - i.e. Dad goes to work, Mom stays at home, raises the two kids, feeds the golden retriever, etc. - is, to a degree, a thing of the past. And preventing gay people from getting married is not going to bring it back.

As I said before, it's not my personal preference. And it's a challenge to think of the idea of homosexuality and try to embrace it for what it is. But, in a new and different way, it IS trying to have a family. Marriage is a good thing, across the board. People staying faithful to each other is a GOOD thing. Even more so, people wanting so desperately to promise to stay faithful FOREVER, is an even BETTER thing.

Even though they're different from us, the love they feel for each other is, I'm sure, not bad for the world. It's love, and that means caring about and cherishing another person. And even though it doesn't bring about offspring, or a traditional family, it's still projecting positivity into our society.

Seeing this battle and confronting the idea of how I would feel if I weren't allowed to be married has made me think long and really hard about the sancity of marriage. I'm sure many people have. And I would hope that watching people fight so hard for it would bring about the same general type of reaction that I feel - that marriage is special, and when two people truly love each other and want to be together, it's a wonderful thing. I don't feel that marriage of any sort should be wrong. If we want to stop the breakdown of the family, lets pass some legislation against divorce. Or infidelity. THOSE are what's causing the disintegration of the family....

At least that's my view on it.