[Teacher317]

There's even more BS than you assert.

First, the "Legalize Gay Marriage" crowd is entirely off in their lone slogan. It is not illegal today to promise to love your significant other for your lifetimes... nor to cohabitate for decades... nor to have a ceremony in front of your friends and loved ones... nor to have a bad party afterwards and do silly dances and toasts... nor to do a week in the Bahamas after that... Gay marriage is NOT illegal in any way.

Secondly, as the author noted, the primary problem is that the government treats MARRIED folk differently than SINGLE folk. This is a VERY important distinction to keep in mind. How we are taxed, who can make healthcare decisions, who can carry whom on their insurance... all these (and more) are dictated by laws and regulations to treat SINGLE people differently from MARRIED people. If our governemnt stops differentiating between the two groups, and allows the market to decide who they might insure or not (thus INCREASING FREEDOM, fer cryin' out loud), then this divisive issue goes away overnight.

Read that again... carefully. Nothing written above makes any judgment call on homosexuality, religion, Equal Treatment, or secular sanction of religious sacraments!!!

THAT is the solution to the issue... but as our Forebears taught us, no Government of any stripe will let go of any avenues of power and control if they don't have to... and thus the silly notion that "family needs to be promoted over remaining single" somehow is more important than the myriad of Equal Treatment and Freedom of Religion issues that are raised is clearly a meaningless canard to help government continue to control as many social aspects of our lives as possible.

The only reason that the Gay Marriage Dabate exists is because government wants to tell us that they should treat married people differently from single people. Any journalism major who offers any other perspective is simply looking for ratings and drama.

[Why So Serious]

Teach, maybe if you showed up a while ago while I was on the left shoulder with sparks coming off the left guard rail, you may have had my attention. I am back in the right lane. After all, if you are a teacher, you are one of them. You might have tenureship but your silly ideas about gay marriage do not. There is a reason that heterosexual government employees that are married get benefits. These are the people that hold civilization together. We are the thread. All that you said in your first paragraph is right except the last line ... Gay marriage is NOT illegal in any way.. If you go back and change it to ... Gay commitment is NOT illegal in any way. Then it would be correct.

Other than that, if you are not doing anything to hold civilization together don't come asking for recognition. I went to a wedding in June. It was the guys third and her second. Those five marriages have done more to hold civilization together than all the homos and lesbians in the world, combined.

School is back in session, aren't there kids you could be dumbing down and giving free contraception to?