Reply #10: Well, I didn't especially like the link, to be honest

[MADem]

...but it did spell out the essential features of the arguments surrounding the issue, with a dash of histronics for good measure.

Quite frankly, if we are gonna be FAIR and JUST (such a concept) we SHOULD allow it everywhere. If you are an American citizen, you should be allowed the same liberties as any other American. Of course, there's this mad dance of the Fundies going on, what with defining marriage, and somehow, without actually acknowledging it, attaching this odd religious aspect to it (will churches be FORCED to marry gays??? Oooooooooh!!!!!! Like gays would patronize a church that hates them!!! Because that church is somehow "speshul" ya see!!!!).

The issue keeps rolling along, but the equal rights crowd is probably being strategically smart by picking their battles. So long as it's just us blue state America-haters who are going for this sort of thing, well, that's fine. If they feel as though they are under assault in their mouth-breathing localities, they could get real stinky and slow down the wheels of progress with their portents of doom and gloom.