Secular ceremonies are symbolic

Religious ceremonies are religious but symbolic in the eyes of gov’t

Legal contracts for issues of health, wealth & bequeathment

Eliminates all discrimination

Does not favor one religious view over another nor imposes religious view of marriage

Churches continue to define marriage as they wish

Equality – equal access to all who wish to get married, can do so and no individual freedom, ideology or choice is infringed

If someone is looking for “acceptance” or “endorsement” they will need to get it outside of their government

No tax credits, subsidies or entitlements for a personal choice to get married

And to the gentleman who posted previous to me, do yourself a favor and actually go read the “general welfare” clause of the constitution. It reads thusly:
“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”

We the People. Not We the Straight People. Not We the White People. Not We the People Who Don’t Like Those People. Just We the People.

Gays and lesbians are People too.

Another thing is that whole bestiality thing. It takes two people to sign a marriage contract. How is a dog (or any animal, for that matter) going to sign a marriage contract?

Good luck with everything,

Steven

Skin color doesn’t affect your ability to sit on a bus seat or drink from a fountain,but what sex you are most definitely DOES affect a sexual relationship,and promoting male-female relationships is THE reason marriage exists (I speak of civil marriage,I have never subscribed to any religion).

The restriction on my driver’s license that I must wear lenses that correct my nearsightedness to the only kind of vision people ought to have does not represent “discrimination” against my “equal right” to “see differently” that should be remedied by separate roads with large-type signs,but an appropriate acknowledgement that my vision is inferior and defective…and calling a flaw a flaw does not make me subhuman…none of us are infallible.

Neither are homosexuals dehumanized by admitting that their sexuality is inferior and defective…it does not detract from any other attributes they have.Homosexuality is nothing but a weakness for a bad habit that people are capable of rejecting.Only bigots would insist that all gypsies are thieves,all Jews are usurers,all Irish are drunkards,by nature…why then are those who insist that homosexuals can rise above their flawed impulses accused of hating them,when it is those who insist that they are helpless slaves to their hormones who are in fact selling them short?

Just wanted to let you know that your videos are being picked up globally (or at least here in the UK) via Ed Brayton’s blog (Dispatches from the Culture Wars).

No real comment except to say keep up the good work and have you through about putting the videos under a creative commons license so that people can re-mix them?

They have a ton of factual reasons why civil unions don’t afford gays/lesbians the same rights as married couples. People I think will be less likely to dismiss these arguments versus the ones you made about young gay children growing up and not feeling that their lives have the same meaning.

the PDF and all their factual findings can be found here : http://www.nj.gov/oag/dcr/downloads/CURC-Final-Report-.pdf

Could you please find a way to get on the O’Reilly Factor and annihilate him in a debate? It would be child’s play

All the people who oppose marriage equality need to realize that, at some level, homophobia is the only true justification for their views