If we legalize gay marriage

[Kber]

it's might dry up the GOP's supply of young, single gay men to hit on.

That's the real reason they are afraid to make it legal.

[Catherine Vincent]

1. Good point. LOL! n/t

[dsc]

2. sadly I don't think we will be any less likely to cheat than

similarly situated straight men.

[davidinalameda]

3. nah

we've all seen that the Repukes don't care about the sancity of marriage

[sui generis]

4. even worse:

NOTHING will happen. The sun will come up tomorrow. People will still be married. People who hate gays will still not personally know any gays. Republicans will still be bigoted bastards, and proud of it. Poor deaf old Aunt Cicily will still break the most horrible wind at dinner. The kids will still have five fingers and toes on each extremity, for the most part.

Life will not only go on, it will go on with nothing lost at all, and the only gains seen in the lives of people the law affected.

That's what the worst part will be. Nothing will happen. The Big Fizzle. Stars won't fall from the sky, civilization won't end, and a whole class of Americans will have a sense that America might actually be worth living in and fighting for and caring about.

[gratuitous]

5. The humorous thing is . . .

Up until just a few years ago, the issue of same sex marriage was on the back burner with most of the groups I was working with. They were far more interested in issues of non-discrimination in employment and housing. Then the Republicans decided to move same sex marriage front-and-center as a means of rallying the religious right. They scored a number of cheap and easy early victories, and I remember a lot of back-and-forth in the gay community about whether this was even really an issue to fight about: Wasn't part of being gay not conforming to the norms of society, and wasn't marriage really an archaic concept better left behind in a post modern world?

But the repressives, puffed up on their early successes, kept at it and at it, passing so-called defense of marriage laws in several state legislatures and passing initiatives in a number of states (including, sad to say, Oregon). In the meantime, the gay community and its supporters geared up for the fight, one they hadn't intended to have to fight but once joined one they intended to win.

And now the forces of repression are facing strong opposition, as there doesn't appear to be any constitutional basis for discriminating and restricting rights solely on the basis of who you make your household with, and a number of people's sense of basic fairness leads them to conclude that rights and privileges extended to straight couples should be equally granted to same sex couples.

The law of diminishing returns shows this issue resonating with fewer and fewer people each year, and the passion that once sparked opposition to same sex marriage is seeping away. I think they're still in the majority, but they're sliding toward a plurality, and will soon be a minority viewpoint (by about 2012 or so).

We fight, we win. That's what really irks the GOP and the repressives, so they try to convince us not to fight at all.

[Red Right and BLUE]

6. BTW - WAY TO GO, NEW JERSEY!!! nt

[Kber]

7. Well thank you.

Our Gov (Corzine) supports civil unions at a minimum, so I am hopefull of a positive outcome.

[Broken_Hero]

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