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Yeah, Mother's Day Weekend was awesome. I'll have a full report later, but I'm actually in the midst of tagging a lot of photos on Facebook which is more exciting for me right now. However, I did quickly skim my friendslist and saw yet another one of those posts that irked me, and if I had time I'd fully explain why.

Nonetheless, it brings up my two sentence theory. Any position you have, whether it's on religion on politics, should be summed up in two sentences. For this post, I want to ask a question:

What is your position on same-sex marriage?

I am against same-sex marriage for two reasons. The first is that it's imbalancing the balance of nature; the second is that we're just not ready as a society to accept such a gigantic change in gender roles quite yet.

See? Nice, easy, and simple. Could you enlighten D2 on your position for or against same-sex marriage in two sentences as well?

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[khiron1416.livejournal.com]

But if you want to buy a house, get a loan, get a credit card, visit in the hospital, file joint taxes, give/receive death benefits, give/receive health benfits, share custody of a child, adopt, cosign anything, bail your partner out of jail, exempt yourself from testifying against your partner, get engaged, have a wedding, be buried together
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THEN IT DOES!!

[loga.livejournal.com]

I honestly don't see how any of those things constitute love.

Marriage is not JUST about love.

[mollyblack.livejournal.com]

When my husband and I decided to get married after living together for many years my friends asked why.

I said every single time: "For the same reason gay people do."

If something happens to me? I want my husband to have the rights inherent in the law. Same with medical insurance. Same with if we choose to adopt. Love does not equal marriage or it would not be tied into the laws therein.

[purplkat.livejournal.com]

I don't know about love, but I certainly expect that they would constitute a broken and bleeding heart if the person you love is in the hospital, and you're not allowed to visit them.

And love isn't going to keep you warm if the person you love and have lived with for most of your life dies without a will, and because you were not allowed to marry them, you cannot inherit their money.

There are a lot of rights that married people get that you cannot get in this country, otherwise. Denying gays the right to marry the people they love doesn't just demean and dehumanize them by denying them the right to enter into the union that you and I take for granted, it also strips them of the ability to take the rights of the married state.

Would you be willing to give up your right to marry? I wouldn't.