gay marriage

Me too! How can loving someone so much that you make a life long commitment be a wrong thing?

I need it, if my boyfriend passes, or if he cheated on me and accidently fell down a flight of stairs, i'd be screwed as far as benefits, funeral expenses, etc.. It bothers me that in a country where I pay taxes, obey the law (for the most part) I can't get the same support a straight couple does simply because both of us have penises. Even if I weren't gay, I'd still support it because I don't believe personal beliefs have any place in a discussion about civil rights. Unless homosexuals are animals, we should have access to everything available to straight couples. Except appearing on Dr. Phil, you guys can keep that.

Not to mention the stimulation it might give the weak economy. Imagine two queens planning a wedding. $500 Louis Vatton napkins. The US is missing out on tons of dollars by not allowing gay marriage, it's not just about what we can RECEIVE but what we can CONTRIBUTE.

I support it but I do admit I support it rather blindly. I don't know all the benefits of marriage except for these:

I can stay with him/he can stay with me in the hospital.
Tax Benefits.
Whatever it's called when possessions whatnot are passed to the living partner.

That's all I know about marriage in the legal sense but really that's all that seems to matter other than the immense bond that I feel would go along with it all.

In short, I'd like Gay Marriage to be national before I find my mister right. <3

I'm obviously for equal marriage rights for all adults, or for none. The church is free to do whatever it wants, but when the government gets involved, it is legally bound to make the same laws apply to ALL citizens, not just the chosen few. So, if the government wants to get out of the marriage business altogether (and repeal all laws that refer, even tangentially, to marriage) that would be best, and leave it to the church to administer marriages.

I feel fairly certain that there are several on this site against it, but most likely you won't get more than one or two to voice that opinion.

I married my husband 3 years ago in Massachusetts. I cried. It is an indescribable feeling to live in a State where the Government accepts who I am and recognizes the union between my husband and me. We plan to move to Florida in a few years. According to the State of Florida and the Federal Governement, we are NOT married. How can that be right?

I agree with all of you, do you think there will be as high as of a divorce rate with gay marriages as a straight marriage?

Also, Industrial did you see my new post on politics, I think you will be happy with me.

Legally married in Canada in 2004, now my state is going to acknowledge it! Marriage is marriage period! Not gay marriage, not straight marriage, not same sex marriage,not inter-racial marriage(which was legalized state by state last one being in 1967) just marriage and everyone should be entitled to the benefits of it.

I learned this in traffic school. In many cases, something that is state-governed, is individual to that state. Massacheusettes said you guys could marry, but Florida disagrees. Since Florida doesn't allow gay marriage, they're allowed to deny recognition of it. Some professions are the same. Different states have different guidelines and restrictions so you can get a business liscence in one state that isn't recognized in another because they have differing restrictions and guidelines and policies. Since marriage is a state-to-state affair, each individual state has the right to not accept something it doesn't support itself.

I'm all for it. There's no real, logical reasoning for anyone to be against it.

There is no logical argument against gay marriage, so of course I support it. But please keep your heads when you get married. Rates of divorce will be just as high for gays as straights. California is a community property state. Get a prenuptial agreement before you get married. Make loving, healthy and smart decisions about your marriage.

been there done that still want to do it again.
with liberty and justice for all?
I don't think so.
but we have come a long way in my lifetime
we deserve equal rights not special rights.

It's not so much that I'm for gay marriage specifically as that I'm for equal rights in general.

There's no excuse for homosexuals to be treated unequally, and we determined "separate but equal" as unconstitutional decades ago.