[TKDietz]

"And, make no mistake, the court in Massachussetts did not order the expansion of marriage to include gays, it rediffined marriage out of existence."

That's just silly. If I lived in Massachusetts I would still feel married. People will still marry there. Nothing will change for the average person. You're just being melodramatic. Redefined marriage out of existence, what a load of crap.

[John Valentine]

With all due respect your comments go way beyond "silly" into the realm of the riscible.

If "feeling" married were all that mattered, then weird people would not feel a need to go to court to have the dictionary and thousands of years of tradition overturned and rewritten. They presumably could be happy to just "feel" married, as you seem content to do.

And, sure, opposite sex couples will continue to get "married" in Massachussets, but what they will be doing when the "marry" in Massachussetts witll be QUALITATIVELY different than what the same couple would be doing if they were to marry, for example, in Texas.

In the first case, they will be participating in a state sanctioned jest; a mockery. In the second they will be participating in a sacrament.

And this has nothing to do with sentiments or feelings, this has to do with state action completely outside the law.