Reply #19: No, I never did. Even when I was politically ignorant and apathetic and even

[blonndee]

(gasp) was sympathetic to W after 9/11 (due to being ignorant), I never saw what was "the big deal" about gay marriage and gay rights. Even being raised in a relatively conservative family who supported Bush over Gore, it seemed clear to me that same-sex marriage (though it wasn't a widely publised issue, it was one I read about and thought about) was a human rights issue and that if government was going to recognize ANY marriage in the first place, it must then recognize same-sex marriage as well.

(My personal experiences factor into this, but largely later than this period.)