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[quote=Anonymous]Marriage in the U.S. instills a bunch of legal rights as soon as the priest, rabbi, judge pronounces the couple man and wife.  By not allowing gay men and women to marry, the state and the feds are discriminating on the basis of gender.   Gay men and women want to marry someone of the same gender and by the state not allowing them to marry they are denying them the rights that all heterosexual couples have.  (Not all hetero couples marry, but they always have the option to do so)  It violates the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment, IMHO.

Gay marriage, more than any other social issue I have seen, blurs the line between church/state.  I've never heard an argument against gay marriage that wasn't based on the Bible or some religious tenent, wasn't veiled bigotry or that didn't fall apart at the first poke. For example, marriage is for procreation.  If that were the case then the infertile, postmenapausal women and couples who don't want children shouldn't have the right to get married.

OP, this is plain and simple a  civil rights issue.  It may go against your religious teachings and gay men and women in general may make you uncomfortable, but that doesn't mean that they aren't entitlted to the exact same rights that all Americans have.[/quote]

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