[Kevin]

The way I see it is that people are getting really hung up on a word: marriage. It means different things to different people. For some, it's a holy sacrament and sacred. For others, it's a contract between two people that involves a property sharing arrangement, financial issues, issues of insurance benefits, etc. In my mind, it's not one or the other, it's sometimes one, sometimes the other and sometimes both.

In the government's case, they can't tell the church what is and isn't a marriage. Just because the government may decide that gay marriage is permissable, it won't require churches to perform or recognize gay marriages. Didja know that the Catholic church already doesn't recognize marriages that aren't held in the Catholic Church? My folks had to get married twice -- once in a courtroom, and again several years later when they decided they wanted to raise their kids in the church. The priest told them that they weren't considered married until they went through with it.

In my opinion, it's arrogant as hell to force your own definition of marriage onto someone else's life. Especially if your concept is founded in religion. Marriage by the government and marriage by the Church can be and in fact are two different things! In a poll recently held by the Washington Times, interviewing about 1200 folks, they found that a slight majority actually supported civil unions. While the majority of folks still disapprove of calling it "marriage".

Homosexual behavior is against my moral code. I also believe that there are folks out there who really can't help themselves. Whether it's psychological or something in their DNA, they are, and always will be gay. If you'd have partied with all the musical theater people that I did (and still sometimes do) it'd be tough to come to any other conclusion.

So we're getting hung up over a word. If two gay people love eachother and want to enjoy the same financial benefits as two straight people who get married get to have, I can't really find a problem with it. Even if the government says it's okay, they can't force the church to recognize it and conduct said ceremonies. So I guess I just can't anything wrong with it.