[CurlyBill]

This is nothing more than a benefits grab, plain and simple. Marriage has always been an institution between a man and a woman. If we legitimize gay marriage, one only wonders what might be next. Before you laugh this one off, please tell me why the gay rights marches have included members of NAMBLA in them without condemnation. Now further deviant groups, emboldened, will also seek legitimacy.... and will threaten lawsuits if not given the same endorsement from government. Two products of Massachutsetts this year: John Kerry and gay marriages.

[Dimensio]

This is nothing more than a benefits grab, plain and simple.

Well, I guess that's a very simplistic way of looking at it. The same can be said of allowing opposite-sex marriage -- for what reason would an opposite-sex couple seek to have their union legally recognized except as a "benefits grab"?

Marriage has always been an institution between a man and a woman.

Except where it's been an institution between a man and multiple women.

If we legitimize gay marriage, one only wonders what might be next.

Only those without a sense of perspective or the ability to understand the problem with apples and oranges comparisons.

Before you laugh this one off, please tell me why the gay rights marches have included members of NAMBLA in them without condemnation.

They have? I'm sure that you could point to a recent occurance. Now further deviant groups, emboldened, will also seek legitimacy.... and will threaten lawsuits if not given the same endorsement from government.

State the nature of these "deviant groups", and I'm pretty sure that I'll be able to point out how their "cause" and their demands are not on par with same-sex marriage benefits.

Two products of Massachutsetts this year: John Kerry and gay marriages.

The Internet is a source of both Freerepublic and child pornography. Shall I condemn the former because of the latter's derivation from the same source?

(before anyone squawks, and I know that someone without reading comprehension will squawk, my point is that Freerepublic is not at all like child pornography).