Arguments for gay marriage...

Marriage (even if it was called something else) has been around LONG before Christianity or any of its subsets.

A dying person deserves to have their best beloved by their bedside.

Someone who devotes their life to loving and caring for another person should have more say than some distant relative.

There is supposed to be a SEPARATION of church and state, which in theory would keep people from imposing their beliefs on others.

If one partner is arrested, the other can be compelled to testify against them or provide evidence against them, which legally married couples are not forced to do.

In many cases, even carefully drawn wills and durable powers of attorney have proven to not be enough if a family wishes to challenge a will, overturn a custody decision, or exclude them from a funeral or deny them the right to visit a partner's grave. As survivors, the family can even sieze a real estate property that they may have been buying together for years, quickly sell it at a huge loss and stick them with the remaining debt on a property they no longer own.


http://www.bidstrup.com/marriage.htm <~very informative


Oh, and Kevin...the question what what my opinion ON CHILDREN has to do with this subject. The answer is.... *drumroll*....Absolutely nothing! Once again, the discussion was doing well until you showed up.

Oh, and I noted that you still didn't come up with any functional arguments against. :P

"None of us can choose where we will love"