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Originally Posted by Marcus
That's too bad. We've had gay marriage in Massachusetts for a few years now and nothing has changed here.
The conservatives have talked about how it will ruin society and ruin families and life as we know it, straight people wont want to get married anymore, blah blah, but life is the same today as it was in 2002.
It doesnt bother anybody and you never hear about it on the news, radio, in the papers, nowhere.
The divorce rate among straight couples hasn't gone up in Mass, and the rest of the states numbers in terms of fiscal budget, education, etc etc are all near the top of the country.
So with Massachusetts's success as a model, why do people still have a problem with this?
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Canada is also a successful model, their federal government decided that gay marriage was protected by their equivalent to the constitution (charter of rights and freedoms), so every province has legal gay marriage. Amazingly the sky is still in place over Canada, hasn't dropped an inch.
The reason that witnessing the lack of problems caused by gay marriage won't change anyone's mind is simple. The opponents of it do not believe the shit they spit out about gay marriage affecting strait marriage, ruining society, etc. Those are the best excuses they can come up with, since open discrimination has not been acceptable in this country since the 60's.
The reason people oppose this is out of prejudice against homosexuals, period. They don't want to accepts gays as legitimate members of society because they hate them or are afraid of them, or both. There is no legitimate reason to want to deny a minority group of the population equal rights, under any circumstances. The bigots who oppose gay marriage know this.