> Well, add me to list of dolts then, Tom.� I find myself in that very boat; > I believe gays should have the right to official unions.� Hell, why shouldn't > *they* have to have the prospect of giving up half their stuff and arguing > over who gets the coffee table if they break up same as straight people?� :)� > Not to mention my sister is gay, and she and her girlfriend have been > together for some seven to eight years, and if that's what she wants, that what I > want for her. > > But the idea of calling it "marriage" does make me uncomfortable on some > vague level I can't really explain.� Product of my environment, I suppose.� If > it makes me a dolt that 36 years of being told that marriage is between a man > and a woman isn't easy to just shrug off, so be it. >
I can't stop you feeling what you feel, but you need to ask yourself why you are so important that your feelings should be permitted to ruin the lives and happiness of people you don't even know. As I said, there are still people who are "uncomfortable on some vague level" with interracial marriage. Should they be permitted to impose their prejudices on the rest of society? Why? Tom Beck www.mercerjewishsingles.org "I always knew I'd see the first man on the Moon. I never dreamed I'd see the last." - Dr Jerry Pournelle _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
