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You keep comparing mixed race marriages to same sex marriages.

Yes I do and I have been told how offensive this is. For any perceived offense I would apologize. Those who know me know my heart is in the right place.

Being "gay" is based SOLEY on voluntary behavior.

There is scientific evidence to contradict this assumption. Hence my comparison.

1. There are documented differences in the brain structure of gay men. They examined the structure of, I believe the hypothalamus, under the microscope. Straight men have little holes in the structure. Gay men and women do not have these holes.

2. There were studies done in Germany on rats that showed stress during gestation caused problems with the hormone release in the fetus. They ended up with gay rats.

So for now I will stay with the science.

1. There are documented differences in the brain structure of gay men. They examined the structure of, I believe the hypothalamus, under the microscope. Straight men have little holes in the structure. Gay men and women do not have these holes.

Have you taken the time to read any of scripter's links to these studies? The articles he has compiled tear your argument to bits. The study you are referring to was on a very few number of corpses, the researcher was an avowed homosexual whose aim was to pursposely find a difference between the brains of homosexuals and heterosexuals, he wasn't even sure about the previous sexual behavior of all the corpses, his findings were inconclusive, no one has ever been able to duplicate his dubious "findings", and even he later admitted that there no proof in his own study.

And one study about rats - I'm sorry, it means nothing. Especially in the face of thousands of EX-homosexuals.

The truth is that homosexual behavior is just that - behavior. It may be very impelling for a lot of people, but many have changed their "orientation".

I have seen interviews with homosexuals who admit that they chose to be homosexuals, it was a decision. And even if a person feels attraction to their own sex, they can still decide whether to act on that attaction. Everyone has at one time or another felt sexual attraction to someone who was not an appropriate partner.

Why on Earth should people who choose to perform specific sex acts be accorded any kind of special legal status?

And there are physiological differences that determine a predisposition to alcoholism as well; and yet nobody is born an alcoholic. They become one by virtue of the choices they make.

So for now I will stay with the science.

Then you should investigate twinning and figure out why there is not a 100% correlation between fraternal twins in their "choice" of sexuality.

Mixed race marriages were against the law because it was believed the races shouldn't mix. We do not defend the justness of that law but we can understand why it existed. Have you seen the film about the Australian blacks Rabbit-Proof Fence? Not a great film, but interesting for a historical perspective. The laws governing race were unjust, yet Kenneth Branagh's good performance portrayed as reasonable in a sense what the whites were trying to accomplish. They were trying to preserve a social fabric. They were convinced the aborigines would lose their culture through inter-marriage.

Just because the fears motivating such legislation in the past proved eventually to be unhelpful, doesn't mean our reluctance to change the definition of marriage OR to legislate equality of gay unions is wrong now.

LOL. This is hilarious. So you're saying we should change the definition of marriage because of men with brain disorders?

The next thing you know they will be claiming disability for their deformity.

All your science may have proved is that the psychiatrists were wrong when they declared homosexuality was not a mental illness.

Next you'll have the schizophrenics declaring the voices in their heads are real and that the definition of marriage should be changed so they'd be allowed to marry themselves.

1. There are documented differences in the brain structure of gay men. They examined the structure of, I believe the hypothalamus, under the microscope. Straight men have little holes in the structure. Gay men and women do not have these holes.