  [ Who get's hurt? ] What is wrong with our hearts these days? Is it so wrong for two people to want to publically declare love for one another? Who is really hurt by two individuals who are in love with each other coming out and formalizing that love--that commitment to a hope and dream of love for life, and love after death?
Isn't that--at it's core--all that gay couples are asking for? To be recognized as committed to one another in all actions--legal and non--in all assets, and, in the end, all decisions regarding property and wealth after death. To be completely frank, who's business is it to tell them that they shouldn't be allowed to make such a committment? Have we really taken to prefering a world of promiscuity over monogomy? One without committment and accountability to one in which the focus is responsibility and committment. And, as some might suggest, if it is "against God's will" for such relationships to exist--whatever that means--than shouldn't we leave the responsibility of judgement to God? The debate over the "legality" or legitimacy of same-sex union is not one of spiritual, or moral, appropriateness. I'm sorry but it just isn't. I mean, come on people! If you want to "defend our world" against the "evils of same-sex marriage," than at least be honest about what you're doing.
This is CLEARLY one group of beliefs colliding with another--or one faction of society declaring that thier beliefs are more just than someone else's. It this not a "melting pot"--the most "free and open" society on the planet? I'm sorry, but there is no other word for what is going on here.
This is simply another in a long line of our famous displays of predjudice. I am just flabbergasted that we are so lost that we lack the most minute amount of social dignity, or the smidgen of community, required to support love when it is presented to us. What will it take? And, who get's hurt by allowing two people to protect and love each other? If we can't overcome these arcane ideals we are going to destroy everything we stand for--which by the way is not simply freedom of speech and freedom to bare arms. (These are only two of our constitutional protected rights. I think we need to spend a little more time reading, and a lot less time trying to protect ourselves from our personal sins. ) 
