Horsey TOON: What are they doing next door?

[n2doc]

[Deep13]

1. If it were legal, they wouldn't have to pretend. nt

[WillParkinson]

2. On the contrary...

Even if it were legal some folks would refuse to accept it. Someone posted a link here a while back that I went to and read comments from people like "No matter what the government says it will never be marriage."

Some people just suck.

[Deep13]

3. True. If it is not approved by their specific religion...

...some will always be against it. And they will feel free to judge others by their religious prejudices.

[pinboy3niner]

4. Yes--sadly--true

But at least they will be able to see that change didn't bring on the apocalypse, after all.

[WillParkinson]

5. Also not so sure...

They simply see it as another step toward it. With some people you will never be able to win. They have their prejudices and many just blame it on their religion when, in fact, it's their own person ones that they find ways to jibe with that religion.

[joeybee12]

6. Some people you're never gonna convince...it's 28%, the ones that are teabaggers

and they're the ones who still think George Bush was a hero. Fortget them they're hopeless...concentrate on the non-criminally insane who are simply misguided.

[eridani]

7. Not a problem. As long as the state says it is legal, it is.

My grandparents were married by a Justice of the Peace. When they settled down and joined a local parish, the priest told them they weren't married and couldn't receive the sacraments. They had a second marriage in the church with my father as ringbearer. The church was within its rights here. The problem is when they insist that people like my parents, or same sex couples, should not be allowed to go to the JP either.