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Originally Posted by VinceZeb
I didn't say most are, did I. But ask a lot of gay people, especially the older groups, if the want to be able to marry. They will say no. I mean, if gay marriage was such a big deal, why don't you see it on the news every day. It is being compared to the civil rights movement of the 60s. The civil rights movement was on the forefront of society. Gay marriage is not. Sorry.
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I will back Vince on this one. I work in an all gay office, and everyone over 30 laughs at the situation. The younger guys have been told in school that marriage is a right so much that they tend to USUALLY believe that it is, but the older guys mock the couple of straight ones and young ones for pushing for gay marriage.
The overwhelming opinion (and this is my office, not all gay people everywhere, so back off) is that one of the benefits among all the crap that gay people get in life is that they have a license to be promiscuous. No tie downs, no alimony, no mess. The sub culture around Boston/Providence/Cape Cod has developed extensively to facilitate a support group of gay guys to screw around.
This same subculture is very supportive of itself in court, business, etc, so there is a lot of good to come out of it along with the bad.
I do feel bad for many of the young guys in that they are preyed upon by the older guys who simply expect for them to put out. The young guys look to these guys for emotion support on all kinds of levels, so they end up putting out. Sad, really.
So I suppose, an arguement could be made that a lack of legit-marriage is the cause of the promiscuity by forcing the development of this culture.....But that is only one theory. I dunno.
In the end, marriage is a religious institution that has been recognized by the legal system as being a useful building block of society that deserves to be promoted and recognized. Asking the govt to alter the institution over the opinion of the religions where the practice is based seems like putting the cart before the horse.