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tobia:

“[Up to this point], five states — Massachusetts, Connecticut, Iowa, Vermont and New Hampshire — and the District of Columbia grant same-sex marriage licenses.”

(A moment to ponder: This is not a “Moral majority” issue. I grow tiresome of that oxymoronic phrase. If this is about democracy for the common citizen, the issues of a specified religious affiliation should be irrelevant. I do not detest Christians (or whoever) for their religious dogmas, I am not being disrespectful to them by any means, but to claim that their respective belief supersedes that of all others, even to the point of influencing the LAW, that is where we have to take a stand. There is a reason for a distinct separation of Church and State (altho’ recent political punditry has blurred those lines considerably). We have a multifaceted and brilliantly diverse community in America. Do we as a nation truly take the phrase “In God we trust” to such a degree as to alter history and blatantly discriminate against citizens who have every bit the right as any to share in the federal and state protected and benefited rights of marriage? This prejudice has got to stop. It’s not a “Moral Majority” we are fighting against here, it is a “Moral selectivity” (and singularity)! And that sort of tunnel-like vision is a tragic and incomplete way to life—FOR EVERYONE. The sky is not going to breath fire, the ground will not uproot itself, this will not affect in any way or take away benefits from “straight” marriages—to even conjure up such ridiculous notions shows how drastic some are to continue this prejudice. This is the SAME EXACT argument we have heard not too long before over Interracial Marriage laws. It’s incredible how we as a country have collectively surrendered to amnesia in this regard. To grant same-sex marriage is not to bring hell fire upon anyone—how ludicrous to think that! It is a LAW. Please, allow me to repeat myself, IT IS A LAW, meaning, people will have the RIGHT to marry whom—as in another human being of flesh and blood, and emotions and fears as everyone else—under the protection and support of the state and government. EVERYONE should have this civil right. Period. Let us stop this exhausting and unproductive, cyclical argument over “moral standards” and start getting at the factual evidence and stop being relative about a democracy. We have to look at everyone involved, not just a specific group of people who decide what they think is right and wrong. There is nothing wrong about people sharing a life together and having that be recognized by the state. “Morals” have nothing to do with it; good old fashioned common, decent law-making does.)
—TO