Gay Marriage

[Tal]

Ah but you didn't say you were taking it from a legal vs illegal standpoint. As it stands right now in many states, marriages between homosexuals is not recognized, while it isn't technically "illegal" it is still prohibited from being a valid marriage by law. But technically should we even be talking about the law when I was responding to what you said?

Here's a (hopefully) infaliable arguments to anti-gay marriage people... It's not affecting you; let them do what they want.

So I really should have said:

Its not affecting [sic] me to have my neighbors run a crack house/brothel/child abuse center....I should let them do what they want.

Say what you want about Crackhouses bringing down property values, if I'm not selling the house right now then the affect [sic] it has on me is rather minimal wouldn't you say?

Granted I'm grandstanding in my approach to this question but my purpose was to show that your argument was far from infallible. Especially since those who oppose gay marriages, like Dubya, feel that allowing gay marriages is effecting them by attacking the core of their values in the sanctity of marriage. Thats at the core of the issue. They feel it is effecting them and society as a whole, the other side naturally feels different. ;)