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If you want to change the way things are, you have to prove your point.

I have mentioned my point repeatedly. Marriage provides protections to the couple and to any children this couple may have. Homosexuals are a couple and more and more are starting to have children. They deserve the same protections as a heterosexual couple. Granting them marriage is the only way to do this.

You argue that homosexuals are somehow inferior to heterosexuals. I have seen this thinking many times. It used to be that minorities were viewed in the same way. Perhaps you will never agree, but I have met many decent, hard-working gays and lesbians. Many of them started out dating other members of the opposite sex, but unfortunately, they find members of their own sex attractive and are not interested in members of the opposite sex. Is this a disease? I know many people around here think so, but I do not. True, they deviate from the norm, but does that make them bad people? Does that make them less worthy?

And as for cheapening marriage, how do you tell your virgin 13 year old daughter to save it for marriage if she snorts at the word because marriage now means whatever you want it to mean?

Marriage already means different things to different people. Some have no respect for the idea and cheat repeatedly. Some save themselves for marriage. Don't go blaming others for your lack of parenting. My parents raised me with certain ideals that I hold myself to. I will raise my children with these same ideals. But I do not enforce my ideals upon others. My culture is mine, I do not enforce it upon others, and I do not see why the government has to get involved.

I recall a story very recently about a man rolling a pig head into a mosque. Everybody was ranting that the government should not get involved with religion in terms of granting special protections for the Muslims. I tend to agree. However, when it comes to marriage, I hear all sorts of talk about tradition and religion.