Gay Marriage
This was written in a blog that I regularly read:
Freedom to Marry Day
By the way, tomorrow (Thursday) is Freedom to Marry Day. The LGBTA will be performing mock weddings on the drillfield at 3:30. There's a straight couple, a gay couple, and a lesbian couple. Expect the gay and lesbian ceremonies to be just as ordinary and mundane as the straight ceremony. Also, stop by the table in front of McBryde just about any time tomorrow to sign a petition supporting equal marriage rights.

The general feeling I'm getting is that gay and lesbian couples, that is, the people this issue directly concerns, are very enthusiastic about it. Meanwhile, there's a lot of straight people, whom the issue does not concern, who are very upset. What's the big deal? If two people want to get married, let them get married. It's not like allowing gay marriage will cause disease or widespread panic or death and destruction. And if you're afraid it will cheapen the sacred institution of straight marriage, it won't unless you choose to let it. If you have religious arguments against gay marriage, the intent is not to interfere with marriage as a religious institution.

The drive behind gay marriage is to extend to homosexual couple the same rights conferred upon heterosexual couples, like succession of estate, medical power of attorney, joint tax filing, etc. Also, this is another push for acceptance, a push to make people see that there is only one thing different/strange/abnormal/whatever about homosexuals compared to heterosexuals: they're attracted to members of the same sex. That's it. That is the only difference. It shouldn't be this big a deal to extend to them the rights afforded to heterosexuals. They're plain old ordinary people.

Live and let live, already.

My response:
You like a lot of people have misunderstood the argument against gay marriage. First I will say that I am not a gay basher and I have a good number of gay friends. That being said gay people aren't, or shouldn't be portrayed as the subject of this argument. The argument is over marriage. Marriage is something that was established a long time before this country was even an idea. And it was defined as a spiritual/legal union between a man and a woman. That's what it is, that's what it always has been. Marriage is not an attack on a certain group of people. It's an institution with a fairly simple definition that has evolved over thousands of years. Two plus two equals four. Two plus two does not equal five just because somebody wants it to. Two plus two does not equal three just because somebody wants it to.
If we're going to come along and say that marriage can be anything that two people who want to get together say it's going to be, then marriage can be between people of the same sex, could be between three people, could be between four people, where does this stuff stop? This push for gay marriage isn't a civil rights case, it's an out and out perversion of one of the basic institutions this country was founded on. There can be laws made to handle succesion of estate and joint tax filing. That's what voting and representation is for. But misrepresenting or perverting what marriage actually is is not a solution. It is an attack on Judeo-Christian(and Muslim I might add) values.
In my opinion it is the homosexuals who need to live and let live.