Originally posted by buckner
There's a reason homosexual couples can't get married - it's ILLEGAL! I think it's PATHETIC that states even had to put an admentment change question on the ballots this election.
You do realize that times and laws change, right?

It used to be LEGAL to own people. The 13th Amendment freed all slaves in the United States. The 14th Amendment made all freed slaves US citizens. The 15th Amendment was made to let all freed slaves vote in the US. Would you prefer that these amendments were not ratified?

Women were granted the right to vote via the 19th amendment. Would you prefer that hadn't passed? Of course not. Was that pathetic?

Many people were opposed to these amendments in their times. Many thought they were pathetic, but after years of fighting a war and fighting for the right to vote, we became a little more enlightened here in the USA.

Hopefully, one day soon, everyone can have the right to marry.

I wish the world could be tolerant, less frightened of people who are “different” from what they may be used to, and less frightened of progress and change. If a law is unjust why shouldn't it be changed? Is it unjust to forbid people to marry and create families, if they want to? If not, why? Because those families would be "different"? There are already many different types of families.

I just simply don't understand intolerance. It baffles me.