Quote Originally Posted by FrnkPwrs
Me personally, I can care less if some guy that is 35 wants to marry their 42 year old sister. I understand that it is a problem because of the genetic abnormalities in kids, but I honestly never met someone who was in love with their sister.
They're out there. Trust me. And my only point was.....what happens when those looneys suddenly think they too can challenge what THEIR definition of "marriage" should be? They will have to be heard and this whole political firestorm would start over again. Maybe not to the same scale, but it could.

I think the gay mans argument is a little more complex than how your putting it. You dont really hear much about gay marriages ending in the same manner the hetero ones. Look at the gay marriage divorce rate.

The numbers are skewed bud. Since gay marriages LEGALLY don't exist, neither do figures about their dissolution. Unlike hetero marriages where everything from blood work to licenses exist to be able to get those numbers from, gay marriages have until now been simply "unions" that noone would ever be able to track. So there is no way in this world that anyone could say with any accuracy that gay marriages last or don't last as long as hetero ones. No way. They're basically ghosts now, so they can't be counted.



I mean, the government ensures that I cant marry people from the Dominican Republic without going through some sort of review. I find it a joke that someone like GWB wants to talk about how they feel so strongly about preserving a positive image when two people wed, but we havent heard him say anything about the drive thru Wedding Chapels in Las Vegas. Nothing about the Anna Nicoles or others who marry people 3 steps from teh edge of death in order to inherit millions. No news stories there!

Point well taken. I actually agree with your logic there. I also agree that there are many many ridiculously messed up hetero marriages. I grant you that.


Once again, what makes this issue so different than an interracial relationship?
Because it's about hetero vs homo and not black vs white.


You yourself admitted that you were in one once in your life.

I'm STILL in one bud. Don't divorce me off . Going on 12 yrs married, 18 yrs total together. She's GA born and raised, and I.....well, you know where I'm from.


Limits, I can understand, but refusal to accomadate a group I can not.

We're right back to ground zero. Who's gonna set those limits? Again, no matter what your answer to that question is.....some group somewhere will say it's not fair. What then?



LOL, do you realize that those gay married couples also pay the things that your hetereo couple pays as well? LOL, I seriously doubt that because you are gay you are exempt from the additional costs of healthcare, insurance, and lowering and benefits.

I'm not saying they don't pay for their own benefits. I'm saying insurance companies are always looking for an excuse to raise premiums. Here is one handed to them on a platter. A large number of people that now can go on a policy TOGETHER (because they suddenly can when their "union" becomes a legal "marriage") rather than as individuals. Insurance companies see a decline in one side, what do you think is going to happen to the other in order for them to keep profits up? They're certainly not gonna eat it. They're gonna pass it on to everyone else, including them too.