Gay marriage is just bull

[Walnut]

Why should we have to confirm to the same bullshit rules that straight people do? Have'nt we been held down enough by the straight establishment? And now we're supposed to get married, have children, and live happily ever after? BULL!!!

[Unregistered]

I agree with Walnut 100%!!

[Unregistered]

Would love to have the civil rights that go along with marriage, but I have had the same partner for 36 years and we see no point in the marriage thing as long as the legal stuff is properly done.

[Unregistered]

Walnut and Ricky...

Have you been paying attention...

Would you like to be told that you couldn't visit your lover in intensive care because you aren't related...

A friend of mine was left a considerable amout of money when his lover of 19 years died...P.S. The will was contested by his lover's family who when they found out that he was gay disowned him and never spoke to him again... and he didn't receive a dime...Only to be left with funeral bills...

[Unregistered]

What Tony said about being denied visitation in intensive care really disturbed me. You invest years of your time and love into someone's life and then you are told that you cannot be there to help pull them through a critical time in which they are fighting for their very existence. You share everything with them including a bed for years or even decades and you are denied the right to hold their hand while they may be dying. How can anyone say that there is anything right about that? We have worn the scars of years of fighting for equality and there are still some who want to throw their differences in everyone's face when the real point is that we are all the same and entitled to exactly the same things in life. If you choose not to get married then so be it but, don't tell me I shouldn't have the right. It doesn't mean we have to always do it folks, but we should be just as entitled to the privelage. If you disagree then that is your choice. Don't try to take away mine.

[suvariboy]

I've been with my man for 15 years (it'll be 16 on March 3/05) and I have no intention of getting married. However...I don't like to be told that I can't do something that others can do. Nor do I like to be told that I'm not as good as others...that really upsets me. And you don't want to see me when I get upset!

We live in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, so things are a bit different here. As of now, we can get married if we so choose. In a few other Canadian provinces gays and lesbians can marry as well. Some won't allow this, such as the province of Alberta (our equivalent of the deep south). It's the same fight as south of the border, just with fewer people. The religious-types are still banging on their bibles, saying that they are justified in the intolerant position - "we're not preaching intolerance, just the virtues of heterosexual union," or so they would have us believe. The interesting thing is that the federal government passed a law several years ago making it mandatory for commonlaw couples (m/f, m/m, f/f) to claim as such on their income tax returns. In their eyes my partner and I are a couple - if we can be taxed the same as hetero couples then it only stands to reason that we should have ALL the same rights! It's 2005, and it's still permissible to be openly homophobic. What's up with that?

[Unregistered]

hey idiot,
you don't have to get married and put up with anything. it just should be an option for those who do want to. wake up, idiot!!!