Two adults who love each other and want to commit to each other for a lifetime should be allowed by the state to marry. Period.
There is nothing natural about committed love. In fact, the majority of people in the world do not practice monogamy between one man and one woman for their whole life. For people to seriously agree to join their lives *forever* and nurture the relationship between themselves is fantastic, amazing, and should be encouraged, no matter who the people are.
I can't believe the hypocrisy of letting heterosexuals get married without a waiting period in an Astroturfed church in Vegas, and not letting earnest, serious homosexuals get married at all.
I sound so heavy because I am ashamed to say that when the Massachusetts ruling came out, my first instinct was to want to quiet the issue, as many of the presidential candidates did, since it felt so divisive. There is nothing divisive about equal rights. They unite us as humans.
Posted by argus at December 4, 2003 04:17 PM