How do you stand on gay mariage?

[punkgrrrlie10]

People are afraid that if homosexuals are allowed to be married we can't draw the line and say bigamy is illegal, or people want to marry pets, b/c they equate it as something unnatural and therefore everything they think is unnatural is thrown in the pot.

I personally have no problem with drawing the line between 2 consenting adults.

Consenting = not pets or children
adults = not children
2 = 2 not more

I've had this convo with several "christian/catholics" that hold this stance and it's also that their religion says it's wrong...However our country is based on separation of church and state. If they got their way athiests couldn't get married either and that's just ridiculous.

I've also heard the argument that it complicates the beauracracy of marriage and that people will use it to scam the government, ie. marrying a friend and not really "marrying" just to get benefits...as if they can't do that with friends of the opposite sex. It was pointed to the problems that France has had with allowing gay marriage. Complicating beauracracy comes with opening the opportunity to more people. More people will always equal more problems that does not mean we close off a portion of the population's civil rights. I saw an ad in the school paper once asking for someone seekinhg "platonic" marriage for the purpose of getting independent status for financial aid. It's done on armed forces bases all the time to get better housing. This is the kind of thing they are worried about and obviously, it's not stopping b/c we stop gay marriage.

You want to talk about destroying the sancitity of marriage then sterilize britney spears and put her on an island please.