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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For me, it's pretty simple - my feelings about gay marriage are separate from my feelings about homosexuality (or rather, the reasons are different).  Every one of the reasons I've heard against gay marriage are religion based - primarily christianity is quoted, but there are of course other religions that do not condone gay marriage.  But I don't think the government should be in the business fo enshrining religious doctrine in secular law.  And I particularly don't think that government should be in the business of determining which of its citizens are entitled to enter into civil contracts (because that's what marriage is, legally) based on religious doctrine.  Finally, I don't think the government should determine which of its citizens are entitled to enter into contracts based on who they person sleeps with.

In a separate but related question, I don't have any problems with homosexuality.  I'm not really sure why - maybe because I have gay friends who have children, or maybe there's some other reason that I don't know - but it makes no difference to me.  I haven't always felt this way, but I can't pinpoint why or when I changed.

Sorry, that probably wasn't much help.  [/quote]

By your rational, then, gay marriage shouldn't be illegal either. Which, ahem, it is (mostly).[/quote]

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