[OrthodoxPresbyterian]

"Gay marriage" or "civil unions" will give legal protection and government benefits to the gay lifestyle. YOU, the taxpayer, will be paying those government benefits out of YOUR pocket, so you deserve to have an opinion on the subject and you deserve to be informed about facts relating to these same-sex unions.

Exactly.

As I have said previously...

Homosexuals, being trangressive and promiscuous in their sexual tastes, do not genuinely desire contractual, lifetime, mutally-devoted monogamous MARRIAGE. If a pair of Homosexuals truly desire to legally-commit themselves to a "Private Union" of lifetime, contractual monogamy, I bet I could find and appropriately modify the necessary "Business Partnership Forms" for less than $100 bucks by visiting any OfficeMax in the country.

What Homosexuals truly desire are the Legal Powers, Privileges, and Compulsory Social Acceptances which necessarily accrue from GOVERNMENT MARRIAGE LICENSES.

This debate has NOTHING to do with Homosexual interest in the genuine commitments and responsibilities of Marriage (the sodomites haven't any such interest), and EVERYTHING to do with Homosexual desire to acheive control over the Levers of Power which the State has asserted over the Institution of Marriage.

[the Real fifi]

I know many homosexuals in long unions. Studies show that lesbians have longer term committed relations on average than heterosexuals. No amount of scripture reading can change a homosexual.