>How about two types of marriage licenses? We keep the traditional marriage license as is and create a “Gay Marriage License”. Then everyone can be happy! :)

I really can't see the point. Why is this necessary? I'm always a little baffled by people who so strenuously object to other peoples lives, even to the point of needing to wrestle up nonsensical laws and rules, when those lives will have no effect on their own.

So homosexuals get married. So what. How does this affect my life or that of anybody else who is not directly part of the partnership?

I've heard it argued that it 'devalues' the institution of marriage, but in light of how short and unhappy so many hetero marriages seem to be these days, I'm stunned by the stupidity of that argument.

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>>I hope you are just being sarcastic again. IMO it is committed gay couples who want to legitamize gay marriage.
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>>>I think it is the attorneys and courts that want to legitimize gay marriage. Imagine the money that the legal profession will have dealing with gay marriages when they break up? The two people who filed the lawsuit in California to allow gay marriage just broke up and had his/her/its names removed from the court document.
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>>>>I don't get it. Still, I have absolutely no problem with gay marriage because it doesn't take any rights or freedoms away from me. The only thing it does do, IMHO, is to afford the same legal rights as any heterosexual couple.
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>>>>Having written that, I imagine insurance companies are having a field day. The biggest fear of gay marriages is probably not overzealous religious groups fearing the errosion of mankind, but in fact insurance companies fearing any two people could go get married and have all the legal rights (which includes insurance benefits) of a married couple. If your friend is sick - just marry him. Then your insurance can pay for his medical bills. If your friend is dying - just marry him. Then you can collect the inheritance. Of course the same thing has always been the case for people of the opposite sex. I know of a few couples who stayed married only so they could keep the insurance benefits of the other because one of them became seriously ill.
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>>>>>>I don't think the civil right movement and gay marriage thing is exactly the same thing.
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>>>>>But it is. It's all about discrimination. It's all about making them second-class citizens, just as people of color and slaves were once. You are of asian ancestry. Luckily you live in an age where you can walk the streets, and hold a job, just like everybody else. That was not so in the past, where you would have been discriminated based on your skin and ancestry. Why is it OK to discriminate based on sexual preference?
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>>>>>Let's not mix secular law of the land with your particular religious views. What a certain religion has to say about gays access to a marriage certificate, with the legal benefits that entails (inheritance, tax breaks, etc.) has nothing to do with what the law says/should say in this country (and apparently also in S.Africa - good for them).