Congratulations. NH also voted last week to establish civil unions, which is a great step.

I am still among those who supports either full marriage rights, or the idea for states to only have the power to grant civil union to all couples, leaving religious marriage to religious authorities. But CUs are a great improvement over denial of the legal rights of marriage to committed couples.

Well, you know, gay marraige leads to gay divorce which inevitably leads to gay divorcees.

One of the things that gays and lesbians CANNOT do, under this, is file joint fed. tax returns. . State, yes, but Fed. no.

jonmc, since they are going to hell upon death, can't you let them have some fun BEFORE the eternal damnation?

heh. I guess you have heard of this famous musical, dude.

I got it. And Ginger is also in hell right now, for even having PLAYED a STRAIGHT divorcee. MY God takes NO shit, whatsoever.

It's a good step, like Miko said. I am also in favor of full marriage rights. I guess I can never see why people object so much to the subject of gay marriage. I even have a friend who is damning her own brother to hell because he's gay. Where is the logic from that? "Oh, he's my brother, and I love him, but he's gay and he's going to hell." For pete's sake, everyone in the world deserves love, so what right do hetero people have in designating who other people can and can not love, support, and marry? As long as no one's getting hurt (unless they like it ;^) ) and it's not incest, let people marry whom they want, with the same rights shared by all couples.

I once heard Dolly Parton comment on gay marriage. She said, basically, that gay people should have very right to be as miserable as straight people.

And then there is Bill Maher's comment on same-sex marriage. He wonders why there is a problem in that every married person knows it's ALWAYS the same sex.

Sometimes I really love this state.

Sometimes I really love this state.

Yeah me too cmonkey. At that party last night there was some amazing ass-fucking going on out on the veranda.


(just kidding. gay and lez activists tend to be the "squarest" people around. if the anti-gay people only knew. . .)

and it's not incest

I heard a short news story on the radio about this and they said something like "granting civil union status to gays and heterosexual couples who can't marry". I can't figure out what sort of couples they could be referring to.