I am a straight, middle age, married women and I support gay marriage.

[Rainbowreflect]

Of course I support gay marriage because I support all civil rights. But I also support gay marriage because I don't want someone coming along and telling me that my husband and I cannot be legally married because we have different religious backgrounds, or because we cannot have children, or any other reason they decide is important.
If we take away anyones civil rights we all lose. That's all.

[csziggy]

1. You wrote the post I could have written - total agreement here! n/t

[Rainbowreflect]

6. I have to add that I also always cry at weddings,

So the more weddings the better. I love seeing people in love and I want everyone to be as happy in love as I am.

[csziggy]

20. I'm a softie that way too - but never wanted a wedding or all the trappings

[liberalmuse]

2. I'm with you, sister!

And you are right on. Thank you!

[JeffR]

3. Excellent, beautiful post.

I could not agree more.

[Xipe Totec]

4. We're twins!

Except for the gender part.

We need government out of the bedroom, and into the boardroom.

[HowHasItComeToThis]

5. REC 5 HERE, 65 YEAR OLD MARRIED STRAIGHT MAN

SUPPORTING GAY MARRIAGE

SHOULD MORMON MARRIAGES BE ILLEGAL, PERHAPS????????????

[csziggy]

21. Sometimes I wonder if the Mormons are angling to get government out of the bedroom

So they can have multiple wives again. Sure, some of their fundies still try, but the mainstream Mormons at least nominally obey the laws.

I wouldn't really care if they only messed with educated adult women instead of keeping their people ignorant and marrying girls too young to know anything.

[TexasObserver]

7. I support gay marriage.

Not only is it unconstitutional to deprive gays of the right to marry, it's MEAN.

[Moody]

8. I too am a straight, middle aged woman who supports gay marriage along with my

my straight middle aged husband, sister, brother and elderly parents.

[LiberalinNC]

10. Me too!!! My parents and mother-in-law all voted no on Fl's prop 2.

[unpossibles]

9. equal marriage rights for all

How hard is it to understand?

Or, as the 14th amendment states:

No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

[proud patriot]

11. I'm a 39 yr old straight married mother of

an adolescent boy .

I want equal rights for all.

I believe a consenting adult should
be able to marry another consenting
adult regardless of the genders involved .

[peacebird]

12. Agree 1000%!

[tularetom]

13. I'm a 67 yr old straight guy and I support individual freedom

including the freedom to select as a life partner a member of any gender you choose, and

the freedom to choose to terminate a pregnancey, and

the freedom to own as many firearms as you choose, and

the freedom to have as much weed as you choose.

[Mike 03]

14. I'm a 44 year old straight, divorced male, and I am in total agreement with you.

We also lived together out of wedlock for almost ten years before we married, and I'm sure there are tons of people who would have liked to have stoned us to death for that.

This whole discussion has been a huge wake up call to me.

It has also caused me to reflect personally on the huge difference Gay people and other individuals with different sexual orientations have made on my life. Not to get involved in this fight would vitiate every moral bone in my body. It is a "must-do."

You wrote it perfectly. Thank you.

[Stellabella]

15. Me too.

K&R

[Tikki]

16. My husband and I are a straight couple....

married 42 years and we support gay marriage.

The Tikkis

[Starry Messenger]

17. 38 and straight. I support human rights, which includes marriage.

For everybody. It is becoming increasingly clear that the only objections left are religious in nature and therefore do not belong in our Constitution. Any of them. Everyone should have equal access. It should not be a matter that comes up for a vote.

[Kind of Blue]

18. I'm a black woman married to a white man. I support gay marriage

because I support civil rights for all people, gays have not negatively affected my life but enriched it, as most people have, and I don't want anyone saying my marriage is illegal. It boggles my mind that it once was and that we still have to avoid particular parts of the state in this day and age. It's just sickening that so many people are more interested in what we actually do in bed than the good lives we lead.

[MadrasT]

19. Kick & Rec because "me too" n/t

:hi:

[Maat]

22. I'm a straight, middle-aged married woman also ...

who has always supported equality.

Many of us out here in California campaigned and campaigned against Prop. 8; we were badly outgunned in terms of financial resources (literally millions flooded into the state from the Relgious Hardright).

We are dedicated to get this horror struck by the courts or repealed.