Amendment # 28 to ban Gay marriage!

Lizard Breath-If you are a straight person, you have the right as a human being to choose to gamble that the person you are with loves you and will continue loving your forever. You have the right to show the government that you are betting on this. They then reward you with immediate legal benefits such as the ones discussed previously. If you are a straight person and decide that this person you have declared your love for is not for you, you also have the right to say to that person, eh, sorry, you're not for me. You have the right to then go through the gut-wrenching and horrendous process of divorce. You have the right to make a decision and bear the consequences of this decision. None of these rights are allowed to a gay person in this country. Do you think that this person should have a different set of rules?In my view, whether or not people *accept* the gay lifestyle is really irrelevant. If people tense up and have negative feelings about gays is also irrelevant. People tensed up when they saw interracial children at one time. I see it as the exact same issue as when some states would not allow a black person to marry a white person. So in both cases I ask, why should this not be allowed? What are the reasons? I can't even see any in both cases. Maybe you can help me understand?

Lizard Breath-Hey, I'm not trying to trap you, just trying to understand and express my own view. I personally cannot see any difference between anti-interracial marriage laws and anti-gay marriage laws. What I see in both instances is the government saying to two adults who want to be married "you cannot marry each other." Yet for if those same two people wanted to marry someone of their own race and of the opposite gender, the government says "knock yourself out".This is how I see it. You see it differently. I don't understand why you do not equate not allowing interracial marriages with not allowing homosexual marriages but I'd really like to know b/c I'm very curious. Exchange of ideas and all that.

Hey,Was reading your post and this came up:

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I hope there is a protection force there to stop the behavior from infecting the rest of society by protecting marriage in this country for the next generations.

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Was watching TV with the girlfriend the other night and a politician on some show said something along these lines and she asked "Protect it from what?" I'd like to ask you the same thing. Protect marriage from what?I apologize if you feel as if you've already stated this previously. Let me know where if you have. Thanks!