I personally would never judge what makes another person happy. If they found someone who they love so deeply that they want to marry - why should anyone or anything stop them?

I live in an area where its strictly taboo, and my husband is SOOO against it. I keep trying to tell my husband that he'd better learn to accept gays and lesbians because he has a niece that should be coming out of the closet within the next few years. He denies it, but then "jokes" about it when he thinks I'm not listening. He knows in his heart that she is a lesbian, but won't admit it. Whats going to happen when someday she finds the person that makes her happy (finally) and she wants to create a life with that woman? Is he going to deny her the happiness we all want simply because her perfect person also happens to be a female? I think that if you take it out of "those gays and lesbians" and make it more personal with names and faces... that more people would be likely to agree that its not a far-blown concept, that people and lives are greatly affected.